Seriousness Quotes

Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness!

— Heinrich Böll

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

— Oscar Wilde

Seriousness is a disease.

— Rajneesh

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

— Stuart Wilde

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

— Donald Cargill

Im single because I take relationships seriously.

— Anonymous

“seriousness, young man, is an accident of time”

— Hermann Hesse

“Despite the seriousness of the subject,”

— Anonymous

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

— Bashar

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

— Mike D

No female will take you seriously if you flirt with every girl.

— MlY AB

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

— Grayson Perry

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectively and happily than seriousness.

— Horace

If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.

— Vanessa Friedman

I wanted to take the seriousness out of everything a little bit, because it kind of fits my style.

— Alice Merton

I'm not a player; I'm a gamer. Player get chicks, I get achievements.

— Archie Fuentes

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be…

— A. P. Herbert

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces…

— Rachel Nichols

My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

— Milan Kundera

I just wanted a simple girl who really knows how to love seriuosly, knows how to understand me being so moody.

— Rakii Retondo

I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and…

— David Corn

Working halfheartedly not only wastes your time, but it wastes the time of person has expectations from you.

— 5h45hvut

The way my brain processes information is quite odd.I mean I have attention Deficit disorder and another learning disability I cant even…

— Chinney

Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the…

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

Just look at life with more playful eyes. Don't be serious. Seriousness becomes like a blindness. Don't pretend to be a thinker,…

— Rajneesh

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness…

— Stephen Leacock

The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they…

— Tom Scholz

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the…

— Toni Morrison

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about…

— Flannery O'Connor

I'm worried that too many people, both in politics and out, don't appreciate the seriousness of the threat to American security and…

— Joe Lieberman

It would be more in keeping with the intention of the noblest man in this world if our two Christian churches, instead…

— Adolf Hitler

The ego can exist only if you take yourself and everything seriously. Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you…

— Rajneesh

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the…

— Rajneesh

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a…

— Pierre Bayle

You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them injustice. We immortals do not like things to…

— Hermann Hesse

“And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?" "The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." "That's not what I…

— Dan Millman

You got a lot of ladies to get through. You’re still young. First love’s the sweetest, but it doesn’t last.” “Not ever?”…

— Holly Black

We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who…

— William H. Gass