Levity Quotations

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.

I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

We were trying to have a little bit of levity with the concept--helping people deal with crises that come up.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

MUMMY, n. An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead. We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame. O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? --Scopas Brune

I allow actors to take chances, and I think levity is valuable, and especially peppered properly in a story like this.

You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.

I'm disturbed by some of the levity I've heard surrounding this case. What we're talking about here is a severe case of domestic violence, and it's time we started taking this issue more seriously.

If there's levity surrounding it, it makes the moment a lot more palatable. If you go on CNN, you're not going to get the laughter.

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Hopefully, it won't ruin a friendship. Obviously, he's in hated Dodger blue. I'm sure he'll be having a lot of pasta dinners with Tommy (Lasorda). Levity aside, it is an interesting flip of fate. You guys know how close we are personally, how hard we worked professionally.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

To begin with Ireland, the most western part of the continent, the natives are peculiarly remarkable for their gaiety and levity of their disposition ; the English, transplanted there, in time lose their serious melancholy air, and become gay and tho

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.