Serious Life Quotes

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

    Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus) "Absurdity and Suicide" (1942)
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   Self  
    Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.277, Simon and Schuster
  • Don't take life too seriously.

    RuPaul (2010). “Workin' It!: RuPaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

  • 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.

    Hurt   Fun   Mean  
  • Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

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

    Men   Taste   Leisure  
  • Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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

  • 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.

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

    Life   Graduation   Wise  
    "Mark Twain, selected writings of an American skeptic". Book by Mark Twain, 1983.
  • Life is too serious to be taken seriously.

    Life   Humorous   Taken  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • 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 (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
  • Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

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

  • 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.

    Mean   Men   Favors  
    "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.
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