Top 82 Levity Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

Work is in the word 'workout.' But I try to put some levity to it because you've got to want to come back.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The topic of global warming is so heavy that sometimes the only way you can open people's eyes is by greeting them with levity and self-deprecation first.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard to watch. 45 minutes of just pain and suffering is not enjoyable. We're trying to entertain people.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

There's a lot of levity to 'Offspring' and I just love that the costumes reflect that.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an epic scale. On top of that, it also showed us that one of the most important elements is a certain kind of levity.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

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

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?" "I find your attempt at levity inappropriate." "Consider me properly chastised.

Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian message into the comics.

I think I was so grateful, in the years after Sleater-Kinney broke up or went on hiatus or whatever you want to call it, to find 'Portlandia' and co-create 'Portlandia' with Fred Armisen, which allows for levity, allows for the same kind of kinetic energy, but channeled through absurdity and surrealism.

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

If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

A little levity is appropriate in a dangerous trade.

Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives.

I have always gravitated toward levity and my parents; I'm sure they have a VHS tape of me when I'm making jokes and trying to make faces when the family was taking a picture.

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

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

People are apprehensive about finding 'The Leftovers' funny because it's such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that... just like in real life.

Exterior shots showing blue skies add a levity and brightness to each show.

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

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself.

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.

Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

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.

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.

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

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot of levity in between and a lot of good fun.

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

I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

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.

My take on people and on the characters I play in Transsiberian, the role you're looking for, is that everybody is more than one thing. We're many things, all of us, and there are times when we are capable of great levity and jolliness and then there are times when the opposite is true.

Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him. Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others eyes.

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

I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their double-dealing, their rotten promises, their broken faith, and, finally, their want of judgment in bestowing their affections.