They say one's weakness can be another strength but my strengths can lead to anothers demolition

“ Life is always to be taken sincerely , people take it seriously.” Seriousness is nothing but dying before actually death.”

I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs

[Lev Beniov:] "The imminence of death did not frighten me as much as it should have. I had been too afraid for too long; I was too exhausted, too hungry, too feel anything with proper intensity. But if my fear had diminished, it was not because my courage had increased. My body was so weak, so spent, that my legs trembled from the effort of standing upright. I could summon no great concern for anything, including the fate of Lev Beniov.