Seriousness Quotes

288 Seriousness quotes by 230 unique authors

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. — Oscar Wilde
Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore. — Oscar Wilde
A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in… — Allan Bloom
Seriousness is a disease. — Rajneesh
My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you… — Rajneesh
The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and… — Christopher Tolkien
The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. — Susan Sontag
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The… — Susan Sontag
When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in. — Susan Sontag
I understand the seriousness of concussions. — Peyton Manning
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer. — Hal Sparks
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… — Vaclav Havel
Oh, that ludicrous virile earnestness! — Heinrich BÃ¶ll
In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me. — Tim Duncan
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too. — Anne Enright
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of… — Adam Gopnik
The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the… — Toni Morrison
For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity… — Jonathan Lethem
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of… — George Will
... in all seriousness... you who submit yourselves to an abortion or to an operation that precludes you from safely having additional healthy children are… — Ezra Taft Benson
To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious… — Myriam Miedzian
Cooking was taken with such seriousness in France that even ordinary chefs were proud of their profession. That's what appealed to me. — Julia Child
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 and seriousness, it… — G I Gurdjieff
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form. — Milan Kundera
Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. — Booth Tarkington

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