88 Quotes About Seriousness

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When creative flow dries up, all we have left is our importance.

My personal guide to living: don't work too hard, don't think too much, and don't take anything too seriously.

People take themselves entirely too seriously. They take their ideas too seriously, their work too seriously, they take love and their relationships too seriously.

Serious students are always serious and it is not as if they just want to be serious, but because they want to achieve something distinctive with their seriousness!

The worst thing about our cultures, education systems, and religions is that they make us take life seriously.

There is a correlation between how seriously we take life and how many problems it gives us.

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.