Lightness Quotes

92 quotes by 78 authors

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. — Italo Calvino
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has… — Milan Kundera
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,… — William Shakespeare
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their… — Arthur W. Pink
If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. ItÂ´s your best day and then your… — Deb Caletti
what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of… — Madeleine L'Engle
Iâ€™m not the smartest guy in the world, but Iâ€™m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, Iâ€™ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"… — Nick Hornby
I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a… — Alexander Gordon Smith
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too… — Milan Kundera
but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to… — William Butler Yeats
She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself around,… — Julia Quinn
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of… — Milan Kundera
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I see it another… — Steve Martin
Up in this air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning… — Isak Dinesen
In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of… — Gayle Forman
How am I doing so far?" she asked, forcing a cheerful lightness into her voice. "You're doing very well," Nick's lazy voice mocked. "I'm half… — Judith McNaught
As the lightness buoys me, I wonder if maybe she was right. Maybe it's not about looking hot for guys, but about feeling like a… — Gayle Forman
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is… — Alexander Pope
I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light,… — Alber Elbaz
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an… — Norman Foster

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