Quotes about seriousness

We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.

— Joseph Addison

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

— Samuel Butler

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

— Dame Margot Fonteyn

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

— Brendan Gill

I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.

— Barbara Hershey

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

— Oscar Wilde

I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know, most of the time when something's a big deal for us, it's only become a big deal in the space between our ears.

— Gillian Anderson