Top 362 Seriousness Quotes & Sayings

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

I have played with seriousness and in a professional way for my country.

Sin is a disproportionate seriousness.

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of purpose and a seriousness of language.

Ultimate seriousness in not without a dose of humor.

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

In all seriousness, I just think, 'Keep God first.'

Absolute seriousness is never without a dash of humor.

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. You can get serious about seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then you can get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; it can go on AD NAUSEAM.

I approach every game with the same level of seriousness.

Rafael Carvalho deserves a lot of respect and seriousness in my camp.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.

Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke.

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others - the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man's being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life.

There's more than enough seriousness in the world.

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what was happening in the world.

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.

Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.

We value seriousness and willingness to solve problems.

We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

Seriousness is a disease.

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

The worst drug of all is seriousness versus humor and pleasure!

Beware of seriousness: it is a form of stupidity

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Now I find seriousness to be rather ridiculous.

Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Seriousness is a sickness... Existense is pure playfulness

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

I think that coming to work every day and what we try and do and accomplish, there's a seriousness to it.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.

I've never been able to understand the seriousness of it all, the seriousness of pride. People talk, act, live as if they're never going to die. And what do they leave behind? Nothing. Nothing but a mask.

In using the terms play and playfulness, I do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; quite the contrary. Anyone who has watched children, or adults, at play will recognize that there is no contradiction between play and seriousness, and that some forms of play induce a measure of grave concentration not so readily called forth by work.

I was trained in theatre so the seriousness was there. I never went in for the glamour.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

There is an overall seriousness in tone that pervades 'To The 5 Boroughs.'

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

The playfulness that I talk about comes very slowly. You cannot just jump out of your seriousness which you have accumulated for lives. Now it has a force of its own. It is not a simple matter to relax; it is one of the most complex phenomena possible, because all that we are taught is tension, anxiety, anguish. Seriousness is the very core the society is built around. Playfulness is for small children, not for grown-up people. And I am teaching you to be children again, to be playful again. It is a quantum leap, a jump...but it takes time to understand.

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

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

I feel theres enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.