Levity Quotes

“No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.”
― Dave Barry

“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.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.”
― Saul Bellow

“All yours, sweetheart,” Smithe added. “And Steele, I’m talking to Donovan. If there was ever anything sweet about you the Polar ice caps might melt.”
― Cheyenne McCray, The Second Betrayal

“Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't.”
― Mark Driscoll

“So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe. "All is vanity." ALL. This wilful world hath not got hold of unchristian Solomon's wisdom yet. But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; call Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly; not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon.”
― Herman Melville, Moby Dick

“Don’t stop now,” Rehv said. “You’ve already jumped off the building. The landing isn’t getting any softer.”
Montrag frowned. “I fail to view this with your kind of levity.”
“Who’s laughing.”

-Rehv & Montrag”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged

“This thing isn’t so serious, life. The greatest moments of tragedy are lost without a bit of levity.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“I've long joked that I got in through the back door, so whenever I am let in through the front door, I run to the back to see who I can let in.”
― Margaret Moser

“When psychologist Jennifer Aaker asked people on their deathbeds what they regretted most about their lives, the most common answer was "Wishing I had spent more time laughing with the people I love." Her work reminds us that a life (and career) devoid of levity is a far worse prospect than the moment-to-moment risk of the occasional flop.”
― Alison Wood Brooks, Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves