Serious Things Quotes

Serious Things Quote of the day

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.

For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

One must speak about serious things seriously.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

I love acting, and that's my passion. So I would love to do more movies and some serious things

An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

To think of shadows is a serious thing.

and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

I think that comedy is one of the more serious things that you can do in our day, especially in the world that we're living in.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

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

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

Irritation. I'm too old to get angry. Anger, that's an emotion for more serious things

Still, life carries on. Exams to be examined. Serious things to be thingied.

You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

Gladly take the gifts of the present hour and abandon serious things!

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

The City seems so much more in earnest: its business, its rush, its roar are such serious things, sights and sounds. The City is getting its living - the West-End but enjoying its pleasure.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave.