Serious Quotes

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.

[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.

Any artist that's as serious about making music as I am, I'm cool with that. But if you tellin' me, "Man, send me a verse and I'ma send you a verse." No. That's not collaborating. We don't know each other and I'm serous about this music.

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

I'm a very serious person, but I don't take myself very seriously and I would rather laugh all day than argue.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

I'm a really humble person and I'm a really on-the-go person. For me, it's never that serious.

Those who still believe the Brahmins should take a serious note of the changing times and start leading an awakened life.

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

Great design is serious, not solemn

People will never know how glorious the cross is until they know how serious sin is.

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion. Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

I definitely would like to do something serious. Not like a love story, but serious like maybe a gangster or a mobster. A gang or a mob movie would be great.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.