Quotes About Serious Life

#1. Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.

Charles Benbrook

#2. That was what living a serious life meant, wasn't it, honoring the gravity of things by not pretending they were light?

Howard Jacobson

#3. Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

Allan Bloom

#4. There hasn't been a serious life-style trend since the couch potato was sighted, in about 1986, on one of its rare forays to the video store. Cocooning remains a significant mass enterprise, encouraged by the availability of five hundred new cable channels and microwavable popcorn.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#5. [A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Allan Bloom

#6. A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.

Allan Bloom

#7. Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

John Irving

#8. I'm very fun; I like to have fun, and I don't like to take life too serious, so of course everybody saw me as the outgoing fun one and the crazy one.

Kendra Wilkinson

#9. She dumped me for the quarterback after she'd played my body like a banjo. So Sad."
"I bet"
"I'm serious. I was heartbroken."
"For how long?"
"A whole week." An eternity in the life of a teenage boy.

Nalini Singh

#10. Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Dean Kamen

#11. Life's greatest reward is life itself

Margaret Thatcher

#12. Speed is not neutral. Fast living used to mean a life of debauchery; now it just means fast, but the consequences are even more serious. Speeding through life endangers our relationships and our souls.

Mike Yaconelli

#13. Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.

David Lagercrantz

#15. Serious problems are those we don't know we already have.

Samer Chidiac

#16. These are the qualities of meditation: a really meditative person is playful; life is fun for him, life is a leela, a play. He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

Osho

#17. One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

Oscar Wilde

#18. Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified.
'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#19. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

Demi Lovato

#20. Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.

Kevin Keck

#21. Life is always so serious. We all need to stop for a minute, make faces at ourselves, and laugh. I

Alex Grayson

#22. We must, therefore, take a less serious view of all things, tolerating them in a spirit of acceptance: It is more human to laugh at life than to weep tears over it.

Seneca.

#23. I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.' I think it was the connection to the idea that one decision you make innocently enough can have very serious, drastic consequences for someone else's life.

Michael Koryta

#24. The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

Adrienne Rich

#25. I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

Paula Danziger

#26. However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.

Michael Foley

#27. The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Helen Rowland

#28. The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the disappearance from life, appears as a natural, almost unnoticed relief, like some of the challenging illnesses wiped out by drug and vaccines.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#29. My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Corbin Bernsen

#30. As an actor, I'm attracted to drama; as a director, it's humor - because it's the story of my life, and I can't be that serious about it. Being alone is a big theme in all my movies, both as a director and as an actress.

Jodie Foster

#31. 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

#32. Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.

Witold Gombrowicz

#33. They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer - some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky - are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one's life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them.

Brenda Ueland

#34. My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.

Sebastian Coe

#35. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things.

Bethany Brookbank

#36. I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

John Mayer

#37. Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.

Paul Dudley White

#38. Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...

Ada Louise Huxtable

#39. Cinderella was the first fairy tale I remember - the one I was most obsessed with because of the gowns and magic and pretty shoes. Yes, her home life was less than ideal - and considering the talking mice and birds, she probably needed serious therapy.

Cindi Madsen

#40. I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.

David Shrigley

#41. After spending the last few years working on a serious novel set in Chechnya, I was drawn to both the brevity and casualness of Twitter, and wrote a series of tweets titled 'The Erotic Inner Life of Mr. Bates from Downton Abbey.'

Anthony Marra

#42. I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver.
I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.

Kurt Vonnegut

#43. He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

Margaret Mitchell

#44. At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial quest for a flourishing life.

Daniel Goleman

#45. Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

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

Sadghuru

#47. I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.

Paulo Coelho

#48. We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

Brenda Ueland

#49. I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done.

Rob Portman

#50. Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

#51. Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#52. I've seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn't matter how we met. We met. I don't want to say that we're a couple. I can definitely say that he's somebody in my life, and I'm definitely interested but I'm not serious with anybody.

Brandy Norwood

#53. Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything.

Ken Jeong

#54. Dar's been through enough in his life, and his legs are only a small part of it. Don't play with him, Cassie. If you're not serious, leave him the hell alone."

"And if I am serious?"

Sean smiled ruefully. "Then you're in for the fight of your life.

Justine Davis

#55. 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

#56. Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.

Ronald A. Heifetz

#57. The life is an adventure. Is exciting and terrifying. From time to time can be a little bored but should never be serious.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#58. Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

Leeza Gibbons

#59. I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

Sasha Grey

#60. The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

Osho

#61. Comedy is great; you get to laugh! Life is so serious.

Clifton Collins Jr.

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

Leonard Jacobson

#63. You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

Paulo Coelho

#64. 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

#65. I have had, in the course of my life, lots of encounters and lots of serious people. I have spent lots of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at close range ... which haven't much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#66. The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

James P. Carse

#67. Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Will Rogers

#68. I've got my life. I'm very serious about my business. I've got my family. And I've got my game.

Ernie Els

#69. Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.

Anita Moorjani

#70. The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#71. I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.

Jonathan Lethem

#72. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#73. There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again.

Willie Nelson

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

Steve Maraboli

#75. Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

George Sand

#76. When there's a history between people, it makes for some serious complications - even in something seemingly as simple as friendship. There is no real starting over. There's only trying to minimize the importance of things in the past. And some events are just too life altering to trivialize.

Megan Thomason

#77. Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Steven Morrissey

#78. God does not require a perfect, sinless life to have fellowship with Him, but He does require that we be serious about holiness, that we grieve over sin in our lives instead of justifying it, and that we earnestly pursue holiness as a way of life.

Jerry Bridges

#79. The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.

Ludwig Von Mises

#80. Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Rajneesh

#81. Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them.

John Muir

#82. One of the things about Scrubs is that it's about great friendships and ... as broad and as serious as we get it's always really about friendship. It's about getting through the challenging parts of your life with the help of your friends.

Zach Braff

#83. Do you know what frees one from this captivity? It is every deep serious affection. Being friends, being brothers, love, these open the prison by supreme power, by some magic force. Where sympathy is renewed, life is restored.

Vincent Van Gogh

#84. A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Camille Paglia

#85. Global new money has houses everywhere, and serious helicopters, it doesn't aspire to the Miss Marple life of St. Mary Mead.

Peter York

#86. 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

#87. We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Gaylord Nelson

#88. My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity.

Yahoo Serious

#89. Gough was a serious student but found time to gain a blue in rowing; he was later to say that the sport was an apt one for men in public life because you could face one way while going in the other.

Mungo MacCallum

#90. If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

Douglas Adams

#91. To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Gelett Burgess

#92. Not a shred of evidence exists that life is serious!

Jan Marshall

#93. There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Alexandra David-Neel

#94. If you are having trouble understanding, let me spell it out for you ... This is serious, Bianca. I've never been more fucking serious in my life.

R.K. Lilley

#95. The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

Pope Paul VI

#96. I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

Ice Cube

#97. It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else's mind and obey someone else's command when you are a person of victim mentality

Sunday Adelaja

#98. T.J. seemed older than seventeen. Reserved almost. Maybe facing serious health problems eliminated some of the immature behavior that presented itself when you had nothing more to worry about than getting your driver's license, cutting class, or breaking curfew.

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#99. There was almost general consent over the fact that the application of the Christ spirit and practice to the everyday life was the serious thing. It required a knowledge of Him and an insight into His motives that most of them did not yet possess.

Charles M. Sheldon

#100. I'm not this callous clown walking around laughing at life all the time. I've had some serious, serious problems in my life. But I've come out with a smile.

John Lydon