Lightness Quotes · Page 5

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy.

— Italo Calvino

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

— Joseph Goebbels

My all-time favourite classic use of ricotta is in gnudi: fluffy, cheesy dumplings of almost ethereal, feathery lightness.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

Generally speaking, when Australian winemakers try to make delicate, European-styled wines of finesse and lightness, the wines often come across as pale…

— Robert M. Parker, Jr

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

— Milan Kundera

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between…

— Adam Gopnik

People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get…

— David Lynch

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with…

— King James I

I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life;…

— Upton Sinclair

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in…

— Anonymous

If you go on a mission to preach the gospel with lightness and frivolity in your hearts, looking for this and that,…

— Brigham Young

“When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.”

— Tim Fargo

Think light! Try to impart a feeling of lightness to the body. Think light. This can be achieved by mentally extending yourself…

— B.K.S. Iyengar

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life.

— Anthony Powell

Simplicate and add more lightness.

— Bill Stout

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end…

— Nick Cave

“I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— John Keats