Seriousness Quotes

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

~ Oscar Wilde

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

~ Graham Greene

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.

~ Kai Meyer

Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

~ Nicholas Butler

What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you.

~ Jackson Lanzing

This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust.O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there.Like the different organsthat make up our bodies.Earth, itself, is one large body.Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery.When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. 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 similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one.We long to be in nature andto 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 sacrilegiousto be serious.Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.

~ Kamand Kojouri

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

~ Bashar

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

~ Charles Bukowski

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

~ G.k. Chesterton

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Roman Payne

Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all the seriousness we learned / and connect with every atom to create / breathtaking beauty with graceful ease.

~ Jay Woodman

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.

~ John Logan

Those who are weak, never suck the blood of the enemy, as it is to be done with strength.

~ Auliq Ice

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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.

~ Charles Dickens

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

~ Bernie Glassman

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.

~ Alain De Botton

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

~ Jeff Lindsay

What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country would sink giggling into the sea.

~ John O'sullivan

You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences.

~ Auliq Ice

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

~ Anthony Powell

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

~ Auliq Ice