Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's hard to be serious in life.
It can't be all serious at all times.
I'm not serious most of the time.
Yes, illness is serious, but the indignities are also funny. And that defines my world view.
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.
One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.