#seriousness

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends. ↗

— Philip Roth

#closest friends #deadly #friends #seriousness #sheer

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#reply #seriousness #surprise #love

And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?" "The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." "That's not what I asked. Where is it?" "I don't know - how can I answer that?" "That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery. "My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass. ↗

— Dan Millman

#ignorance #seriousness #understanding #change

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#generosity #humor #i #integrity #kindness

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #efforts #men #only #seriousness

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#sent #seriousness #stupidity

[Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov. ↗

— David Benioff

#courage

Seriousness is for fools and poor destitute families who have lived their entire lives on spam. ↗

— Jason Krumbine

#seriousness #family

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #humour #language #seriousness #men

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#seriousness #perception