“Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“One must speak about serious things seriously.”
Letter to A.N. Pleshcheev (September 9, 1888)
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“If one speaks about torture, one must take care not to exaggerate.”
Jean Améry (1912–1978) Austrian essayist
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities (1966)
“One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.”
Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist
Source: P.S. I Love You
“Of God one doesn't speak with any precision or seriousness except in poetry.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913–1994) Colombian writer and philosopher
Escolios a un Texto Implicito (1977), Volume Two
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Variant: Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
Variant: Often quoted as: Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Variant: Often quoted as: Life is too important to take seriously.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lord Darlington, Act I
“We need to the right thing. Take this seriously, not to verbalize about it, and not to talk.”
Robert Muhiirwa (1958) Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop
Source: Fort Portal Bishop calls for more environmental protection awareness https://www.ntv.co.ug/ug/news/national/fort-portal-bishop-calls-for-more-environmental-protection-awareness-3328498 (March 19, 2021)