Serious Life Quotes:

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

- Sophie Swetchine

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Adventure, Life Is An Adventure, Frivolous

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard (1917). “In the Spotlight: Personal Experiences of Elbert Hubbard on the American Stage”

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Life And Living, Life Being Too Short

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

- Mike Leonard

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Humorous, Taken, Profound, Serious Life

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

- Brendan Gill

topic: Life, Ideas, Favors, Life Is Not Worth Living, Just Living Life

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

- Mark Twain

source: "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

topic: Graduation, Funny Life, Attitude, Going To College, Life Going On

Don't take life too seriously.

- RuPaul

source: RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins

topic: Life, Sarcastic, Funny Inspirational, Meaning Life, Life Being Too Short

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

source: Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

topic: Mean, Thinking, Life And Death, Serious Life

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

- Albert Camus

topic: Suicide, Philosophy, Philosophical, Life Is Not Worth Living, Philosophic

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

- Robert Jones Burdette

source: "Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.

topic: Meaningful, Good Life, Live Life, Going To College, Life Going On

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

topic: Hurt, Fun, Mean, Life Hurts, Serious Life

A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

- Vivian Gornick

topic: Believe, Hands, What Matters, Reflecting, Recitals

[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

topic: Men, Taste, Leisure, Serious Life

... 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

topic: Availability, Style, Popcorn, Life Style, Serious Life

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

topic: Long, Pesticides, Serious, Low Level, Serious Life

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Mean, Men, Favors, Serious Life

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

topic: Mean, Thinking, Self, Serious Life