Lightness Quotations

Because we were orbiting the earth faster than earth spins on its axis, we went around the earth 16 times a day, an earth day, which meant 16 periods of lightness and 16 periods of darkness in 24 hours. Every so often you'd look towards the earth, and often you could see lightness and darkness together, and dawn and sunset were spectacular.

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

If I play a villain, I try to find his lightness and his good side. And if I play a hero or a good guy, I'll try to find his darkness or his flaws. Because I don't believe in good and evil. I believe in grays.

Watching Reagan, we learned a lesson in how you play the game. You see it in Roberts, too: a genuine friendliness and lightness of touch, combined with absolute determination and commitment to principle.

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.