Best 59 quotes in «seriousness quotes» category

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A joke is a very serious thing.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

If you will learn the seriousness of life, and its beauty also, live for your husband; make him happy.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Albert Campion: 'I’m serious!' Lugg: 'That’s unhealthy in itself.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?" "The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." "That's not what I asked. Where is it?" "I don't know - how can I answer that?" "That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery. "My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass.

Art is play. When it turns serious and ceases to be play, it is no longer art but propaganda.

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.

When you swear, swear seriously and solemnly, but at the same time with a smile, for a smile is the twin sister of seriousness.

But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow of those who have gone before, I mean those who have struggled and surmounted, I mean those who have aspired, I mean Rembrandt, I mean Turner, I mean Michelangelo and Matisse … I mean obviously Rothko.

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

Even if you're writing serious stuff keep your tongue firmly planted in your cheek.

I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.

During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has discarded all amusements, discountenanced all story-books, fairy-tales, fictions, and fables, and banished all levities whatsoever. Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds.

Folly consists not in having desires but in taking them seriously.

In politics you learn how to say A mean to say B, in wisdom you learn how to say A and keep saying that.

If you mean your words, people who lust over your lovely ways won't dare to reject you.

It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Putting serious messages in Comic Sans is like dropping bad news and then saying LOL afterwards, it does not compute nor does it make sense.

I like to prowl ordinary places. I feel sorry for us all or glad for us all caught alive together and awkward in that way. there's nothing better than the joke of us the seriousness of us the dullness of us

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.

Only an atmosphere of quiet hard work and dull, serious conversation were appropriate to him.

People take themselves entirely too seriously. They take their ideas too seriously, their work too seriously, they take love and their relationships too seriously.

Serious students are always serious and it is not as if they just want to be serious, but because they want to achieve something distinctive with their seriousness!

The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends a great deal on its seriousness, as even in poetry the beauty of a line may depend to some extent on the significance of the ideas which it contains.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

Realise that there is no necessity to always be serious.

Stop holding back those desires you've been too ashamed to admit.

The first step towards true enlightenment is to lighten up on yourself.

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were concerned for their lives, and some for those they cared most about: rays, sea horses, even the chickens that ran free in the streets of the city because they couldn't all be caught in time.

The seriousness of a theorem, of course, does not lie in its consequences, which are merely the evidence for its seriousness.

Universe likes seriousness in serious matters; if you are not serious in serious matters, universe will remind you in a very strong way why you have to be serious in serious matters!

What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?

This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of different stars that make up the sky so, too, are there billions of different humans that make up the Earth. Some shine brighter but all are made of the same cosmic dust. O the joy of being in life with all these people! I speak of differences because they are there. Like the different organs that make up our bodies. Earth, itself, is one large body. Listen to how it howls when one human is in misery. When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in its chest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette. Look carefully, these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable. These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair. This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. I will no longer speak of differences, for the similarities are larger. Look even closer. There may be distances between our limbs but there are no spaces between our hearts. We long to be one. We long to be in nature and to run wild with its wildlife. Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful. Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegious to be serious. Let us celebrate imperfections and make existence proud of us, for tomorrow is death, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.