Levity Quotes

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

“Middle age is youth without its levity And age without decay.”

“Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”