#levity

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

#death #levity #poison #souls #death

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

#levity #humor

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

— Francis Atterbury

#confidence #corrects #levity #school #sinning

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. ↗

— Edward Irving

#grieves #hardness #heart #levity #manifest

You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever. ↗

— Michael Lesy

#face #faced #forever #front #levity

Nothing like a little judicious levity. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#levity #like #little #nothing

I try to conduct my life with a little levity. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#i #levity #life #little #my life

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

— Doris Day

#decay #levity #middle #middle age #without

Joan's a dream to play - she's not always prancing around the office. There's that side to it, which is really fun, but there's nitty-gritty. She's what makes the workplace so fun - in a workplace that can be so dark and so much tension, Joan gives some levity. And the wonderful thing is she still has these darker moments among the fabulous highs. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#among #around #dark #darker #dream

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. ↗

— Nick Stahl

#been #brutal #darker #doing #experience