Quotes and Sayings about Seriousness

Fools who wear their hearts proudly on their sleeves, who cannot control their emotions, who wallow in sad memories and allow themselves to be provoked this easily - weak people, in other words.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

In other words, you don't want to be serious
It takes two to be serious.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I think you should take your job seriously, but not yourself - that is the best combination.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

I'm not crazy - my reality is just different from yours.

There is a place like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter.

Lord Beckett: "You're mad!"
Jack Sparrow: "Well thats good, cause if I wasn't, this'd probably never work."

You see, madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push!

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles.

No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.

In order to find some solution to the bullying problem, we’ll have to be more tolerant of ambiguity, subtlety, and strangeness not just in other people but in ourselves. It may be important to your identity that you are a soccer player, but it may be equally important that you can whistle the national anthem backward and make the world’s best spicy popcorn and do a wicked impression of Victoria Beckham. Schools, parents, and educational endeavors should encourage people not just to empathize but to discover and celebrate the weirdness in others and in ourselves. We need not just to think but to live outside the box. Weirdness is good. It keeps things interesting.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.

Normality is a paved toad; It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

We all go a little mad sometimes.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

He who can make people laugh has to be taken seriously; all people with power know that.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

People who can put on a serious face while joking are the scariest.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Humor is the truth; wit is an exaggeration of the truth.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
it's always our self we find in the sea.

A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Some things you know about, you know what the ingredients are - maybe not all of them. But it's up to you to put in the amount. It's up to the director to nag you until you get it right.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.