Life Not So Serious Quotes

#1. It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

John Irving

#2. Don't take life TOO serious you can't get out alive anyhow.

Hank Williams

#3. The serious problems in life ... are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly.

C. G. Jung

#4. Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#5. I think it's more honest, true to life, to write about serious matters. And also not to do something that's gentle. I like to put, ideally, belly laughs on one side, and really serious moments on the other. So they kind of come up against each other.

Guy Jenkin

#6. A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

Henry Fielding

#7. Humor and profundity are not mutually exclusive, and life can be, and mostly is, serious and funny simultaneously. It's not always easy to capture that in words, but when T.M. Shine manages to do so, it's a sign of a master at work.

Tom Shroder

#8. You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

Howard Pyle

#9. So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'

Shailene Woodley

#10. 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.

W. H. Auden

#11. Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#12. From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.

Polybius

#13. When you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.

Richard Carlson

#14. I thought if I wanted people to take me seriously, I needed to act serious and not reveal too much of my private life so people could seriously accept me in different things.

John Corbett

#15. To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

Pentti Linkola

#16. An empowered life begins with serious personal questions about oneself. Those answers bare the seeds of success.

Steve Maraboli

#17. We can't all succeed following the same path as successful men followed. Each person has it's own destiny. You might get stuck at any stage if it's not your way but you'll fly away if it's yours. Follow your mind and take serious anything you do.

Amen Muffler

#18. Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.

Leonard Jacobson

#19. The greatest cause in the world is joyfully rescuing people from hell, meeting their earthly needs, making them glad in God, and doing it with a kind, serious pleasure that makes Christ look like the Treasure he is.

John Piper

#20. The secret of life is to see everything with a non-serious eye, but to be absolutely involved. It's like a game.

Sadghuru

#21. I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

Matt Bomer