Seriously Quotes

2140 Seriously quotes by 1623 unique authors

There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird. — Charles de Lint
Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it… — Jane Green
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the… — Gustave Flaubert
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action. — Hermann Hesse
And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy… — Eckhart Tolle
You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously. — Tristan Tzara
When the church takes affairs of the state more seriously than they do Jesus, Pax Romana becomes its gospel and the president becomes the Son… — Shane Claiborne
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously,… — Brandon Sanderson
Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right… — Hillary Clinton
If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this… — C.S. Lewis
The gourney, the big file drawers of the dead, the instruments of dissection - this sure looked like the morgues in the movies. Something had… — Christopher Moore
How can I give you nothing? Do you seriously expect me to buy nothing, wrap up nothing, stick a gift tag on nothing, send a… — Hilary McKay
I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,… — Fernando Pessoa
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as… — Sherman Alexie
Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey.… — Dorothy Allison
I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked… — Alice Munro
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live… — Oscar Wilde
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas… — Robert Wilson Lynd
Only the insane take themselves seriously. — Max Beerbohm
It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great… — Clive Barker
and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow -… — Jack Kerouac
Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the… — Sam Harris
Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before. — Robin McKinley

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