Quotes of Lightness - somelinesforyou

“ O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May? ”

- John Keats

“ My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time. ”

- Richard Watson Gilder

“ A land of levity is a land of guilt. ”

- Edward Young

“ The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

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

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- Johnathan Frakes

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

- Francis Atterbury

“ What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. ”

- Christopher Fry

“ I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ”

- Robert Anton Wilson

“ Between levity and cheerfulness there is a wide distinction; and the mind which is most open to levity is frequently a stranger to cheerfulness. ”

- Hugh Blair

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

- Daniel Defoe

“ Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. ”

- William Hazlitt

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

- G. K. Chesterton

“ Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. ”

- Italo Calvino

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Doris Day

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

- Daniel Defoe

“ I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way. ”

- Julia Roberts

“ Worry — a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli
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