Quotes About Lightness

A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us up the same way when we sing it.

if you think too hard about anything it's bound to take the fun out of it.

C]haracter occurs with the lightest of brushstrokes. Naturally, it can be destroyed lightly, too.

She moved as lightly as a mote of dust gamboling in a sunbeam passing through the stained glass window of a French Gothic cathedral. Her breasts stood up proudly like twin tin soldiers. Looking at her made him feel an uncontrollable urge to vomit forth his innermost feelings, straight at her.

A soul can finally fly free as a bird only after its energy is lighter and has been purified.

Portability is for canoes.

The almond blossom from the tree has gone, to be replaced by new green shoots. It smells of spring, and mown grass, and tilled earth from the fields beyond. Now is the month of Germinal in the Republican calendar: the month of hyacinth, and bees, and violet, and primrose. It is also the windy month; the month of new beginnings, and I have never felt it so strongly as I feel it now: that sense of possibility; that irresistible lightness.

Adesso, fare cioccolato è una cosa diversa. Oh, certo, ci vuole comunque una certa abilità. Leggerenzza nel tocco, rapidità, una pazienza che mia madre non avrebbe mai avuto.

When I have had a long day at work, I want something to watch that is funny, lighthearted and easy to get into, and reality is that. I'm not really into serious programmes or documentaries.

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.

Sometimes joking is a relief from seriousness.

Your lightness," I said, hardly knowing what I was saying. "It's disarming.

As a mother, I had the lightness now of effort complete, honor satisfied. Mission accomplished.

Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.

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Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

One should be light like a bird and not like a feather.

Esiste una leggerezza della pensosità, così come tutti sappiamo che esiste una leggerezza della frivolezza; anzi, la leggerezza pensosa può far apparire la frivolezza come pesante e opaca.

To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.

prendete la vita con leggerezza, che leggerezza non è superficialità, ma planare sulle cose dall'alto, non avere macigni sul cuore

At this point we must remind ourselves that the idea that the world is made up of weightless atoms surprises us because we have experienced the weight of things. Similarly, we could not admire the lightness of language if we had not also learned to admire language endowed with weight.

If I had to choose an auspicious sign for the approach of the new millennium, I would choose this: the sudden nimble leap of the poet/philosopher who lifts himself against the weight of the world, proving that its heaviness contains the secret of lightness, while what many believe to be the life force of the times—loud and aggressive, roaring and rumbling—belongs to the realm of death, like a graveyard of rusted automobiles.

La mia operazione è stata il più delle volte una sottrazione di peso; ho cercato di togliere peso ora alle figure umane, ora ai corpi celesti, ora alle città; soprattutto ho cercato di togliere peso alla struttura del racconto e al linguaggio.