Mary Oliver
Poet
"it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world."
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Serious Things
32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"A joke is a very serious thing."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
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"It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing."
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"A joke's a very serious thing."
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"For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone."
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"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites."
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"One must speak about serious things seriously."
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"and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed."
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"Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things."
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"To think of shadows is a serious thing."
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"Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them."
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"Our rash faults Make trivial price of serious thing we have, Not knowing them until we know their grave."
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"We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality."
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