Serious Business Quotes

The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me’ is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death.

The perfect state, the summum bonum, is Play. In play, life expresses itself in its fullness. God's life is play. Adam fell when his play became serious business .

I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.

I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Good design is serious business.

Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours---ambition is the serious business of life.

Life is a very serious business for the simple reason that nobody dies laughing.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

William Blake really is important, my cornerstone. Nobody ever told me before he did that childhood was such a damned serious business.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

An annuity is a very serious business.

Now remember, kids, the internet is serious business.

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Soloing is serious business, because you can be seriously dead.