Quotes About Seriousness

Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

And yet methinks the older that one grows Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

He had to laugh. "Lotti, when I first met you, you were in PE class wearing a baggy T-shirt and sweats and I wanted you." "I'm being serious, Sean." "So am I.

You're dead, son. Cheer is contraindicated.

Maggie nodded to me several times and then said, very seriously, "You're a little scary sometimes. You should know that. Regular dads don't say things like this.

Clasping your hands together means you are serious. Clasping them around someone else's throat means you are very serious

Some folks called Dewar a dilettante; he did not consider it an appropriate term, indicating as it did a lack of seriousness, a trifling sort of interest.

Concentration is a powerful force, it is the mark of seriousness that attracts certain energies to complete your half-done work.

The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking ones self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

In order to make your dreams a reality, you must first be willing to take yourself and your dreams seriously.

Always a shy one, he swallowed his pill of Catholicism seriously.

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

People who do nothing other than be in love are perhaps more serious and holier than those who sacrifice their love and their heart to an idea

Women of about the age of fifty are often distrustful, and perhaps it is that very distrust and cunning that entangles them. If you care to hear them, I can tell you some particulars some day. I do not know whether all women become more serious in getting older, and then want to govern and correct their daughters, which they do in exactly the wrong way.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Humor and seriousness can be an unstable mix.

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

Chi è serio, si guarda bene dallo scrivere di cose serie.

Those incapable of thinking gravely read gravity into frivolties which correspond to their own frivolous nature.