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.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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

Alex Trebek

Craziness & Weirdness

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

Edward Estlin Cummings

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

Niels Bohr

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

Molly Ivins

Humor & Comedy

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

Judi Dench

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Craziness & Weirdness

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Margot Fonteyn

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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.

Graham Chapman

Reason & Sanity Craziness & Weirdness

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

Lewis Carroll in Alice In Wonderland

Craziness & Weirdness

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.

Alice In Wonderland

Craziness & Weirdness

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

Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean - Am Ende der Welt

Courage Craziness & Weirdness

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

Joker in Batman - The Dark Knight

Craziness & Weirdness Gravity

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

Charles Bukowski

Craziness & Weirdness

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

Mark Twain

Life Craziness & Weirdness

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

P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman

Character Craziness & Weirdness

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.

Megan Kelley Hall in Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories

Craziness & Weirdness Bullying

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Humor & Comedy Craziness & Weirdness

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

Vincent van Gogh

Street Craziness & Weirdness Normality

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Billy Loomis in Scream

Craziness & Weirdness

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.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Craziness & Weirdness

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

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Imagination Craziness & Weirdness

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

Marilyn Monroe

Craziness & Weirdness Perfection

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.

Haruki Murakami in Kafka on the Shore

Craziness & Weirdness

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

Sam in Garden State

Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy

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

Werner Finck

Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy Satire

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

Erma Bombeck

Laughing & Smile Humor & Comedy

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

Charles Dickens

Life Love Humor & Comedy

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

Langston Hughes

Summer Humor & Comedy Air

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

Roald Dahl

Humor & Comedy

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.

Warwick Davis

Humor & Comedy

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

Shirou Emiya in Fate/stay night

Humor & Comedy Sarcasm

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

Ricky Gervais

Humor & Comedy

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

Stan Laurel

Humor & Comedy

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

Jay Leno

Humor & Comedy

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

Olivia Colman

Humor & Comedy

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

Sid Caesar

Humor & Comedy

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

Garry Shandling

Humor & Comedy

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.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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

Harry James Potter in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Voldemort / Tom Riddle

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

Alex Trebek

Nature & Environment Conservation & Environment Protection

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

Edward Estlin Cummings

Ocean

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

Niels Bohr

Physics Atoms

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

Molly Ivins

Opinions

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.

Judi Dench

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

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Mother

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

Margot Fonteyn

Genius Magic

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