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

I don’t feel like it’s pressure. It’s more of an obligation – not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there’s got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don’t have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.

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.

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

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.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

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.

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

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

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

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

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

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

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.

Alice? She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. Yes? she forced out. Do you know what I am holding in my hand? No. Care to guess? A pitchfork? she asked in a stilted attempt at levity, hoping to invoke his earlier, playful mood. No, my dear, he answered drily. A key to your room. What?she breathed, aghast. I should hate to have to use it. You have a key to this room? Mm-hmm. She took a step toward the door, panic rising up in her throat. You’re bluffing! Do you wish me to prove it?

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

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

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

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,–mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

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

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.

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

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.

Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it’s very serious, and even in the serious songs, there’s sometimes an angle of levity. I think that’s just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn’t ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

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.

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

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?

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.

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.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

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