A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game. — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre. — Pat Nixon Copy Share Image
...God knows you can have complication and difficulty without any compensating depth or seriousness — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me. — Tim Duncan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If someone had told me at fourteen that I'd be six-ten, I might have stuck with basketball, in all seriousness. — John Isner Copy Share Image
Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Someone once said, earnest desire creates connections, and only memories will bring those moments to life — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life can be funny and serious. We either laugh over it or cry over it. But Life itself doesn't care about such… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
It is imperative that the entire Christian community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The… — Joseph Joachim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place.… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
In short, Israel is the measure of our failings and our incompetence. We have waited for a great leader for years, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The seriousness or otherwise of the subject matter is often irrelevent to the question of whether a book is any good. F… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Albert Campion: 'I’m serious!' Lugg: 'That’s unhealthy in itself.” — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I should be asleep, but there are a lot of things I should be. — Michael Angelo De Leon Copy Share Image
I hate it when you're trying to be serious, but then you accidentally smile. — Xiang16 Copy Share Image
