88 Quotes About Seriousness

Vincent was lovely but not, Olivia had decided, a serious person. Since her late teens she had been mentally dividing people into categories: either you're a serious person, she'd long ago decided, or you're not. A difficulty of her current life was that she was no longer sure which category she fell into.

The things not taken seriously are the things which causes seriousness in our lives. We wait for a right time to decide the time for taking things seriously, but the time never waits, it has a tendency to slip from our grips.

We all have to live, but we don't have to take it seriously.

Even if you're writing serious stuff keep your tongue firmly planted in your cheek.

There are things about me that you don't know," she persisted."You're married. It was a flat statement.She laughed. "Of course not. I wouldn't be here with you now if I were.""You've got a prison record?"She laughed again, louder. It felt good."No, I do not have a prison record.""Then whatever it is, it can't be that serious.

[Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov.

The more you learn, the more you know that you're not so hot.

I would hate to be taken seriously. Serious people are always so grim and uptight that they make me want to dance naked on the lawn playing a flute.

And somebody might now want to ask me, "Can't you ever be serious?" The answer is, "No.