Quotes about Seriousness

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.

One reason why we are less fervent than we ought to be is that we cripple our own spirit by taking ourselves too seriously. We expect too much from ourselves when we ought to expect everything from God on Whom we utterly depend.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.

I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Until then there is a lugubrious seriousness I love in all of this.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

Ä°nsan hiçbir ÅŸeyi, hiçbir kimseyi ciddiye alamay?nca yaÅŸamak ne kadar da hüzün verici!

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity...