Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird.

Don't take life so serious. It ain't nohow permanent.

"I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."

[<i>Writer’s Digest Interview</i> (Robert Jacobs, <i>Writer’s Digest</i>, February 1976)]

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

So we won't take ourselves too seriously. Because taking something serious doesn't make it go away any faster. In fact, it keeps making it a little bit worse.

That’s the trouble with not being in your own field: You don’t take it seriously.

Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

To take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness

Don't take life so serious, son...it ain't no how permanent. — Porky Pine, June 19-24, 1950

People tend the take everything too seriously. Especially themselves. Yep. And that's probably what makes 'em scared and hurt so much of the time. Life is too serious to take that seriously.

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously