Serious Quotes

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside.

Charlie Brown got hit with a line-drive!" "Does anyone here know anything about first-aid?" "It's probably not serious... Second or third-aid will do.

Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict.

Everything serious that he says is a joke and everything humorous that he says is dead serious.

Will Smith is a funny person, a very likable person, but at the same time he can be serious and really handle his business. I'll stay away from talking about his rapping abilities, though.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

We don't want to bury our heads in the sand about serious issues.

There is a certain solipsism to serious illness which claims all of one's attention as certainly as an astronomical black hole seizes anything unlucky enough to fall within its critical radius.

I've got a serious-looking head.

North Texas is by far the most serious minded jazz program I have encountered.

My voice is soft, but oh, my heart roars!

I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.

Why is it so hard to be serious, so easy to be too serious?

To quit taking risks is a serious risk!

America has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation. We're a serious debtor nation. And we have a country that needs new roads, new tunnels, new bridges, new airports, new schools, new hospitals.

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.

War is too serious to be entrusted to generals

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream - of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete - lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.

German history is full of serious mistakes pertaining to premature personnel decisions.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

If you really pay attention to me, I'm not the most serious person.

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious crime of all.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

Somehow I seem to have been gently bypassed as a serious actor.

I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.

For me, religion is serious business - a farrago of authoritarian nonsense, misogyny and humble pie, the eternal enemy of human happiness and freedom.

Being a therapist can be very serious though. There are people's lives in your hands. For me, it was too much.

Going through these academic programs, your job really is to learn how to be a therapist. They're training you to sit in front of clients and it's a serious matter. You're holding people's psyches.

It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.

Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.