Quotes About Levity

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

what else is there to do but laugh and joke...how else can you bear up under the unbearable?

When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.

I always take life with a grain of salt. . . plus a slice of lemon and a shot of tequila.

I'm fascinated by comedy.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

It would be terribly boring to be earnest.

As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes, my view of hospital life must be taken through my glass, and held for what it is worth. Certainly, nothing was set down in malice, and to the serious-minded party who objected to a tone of levity in some portions of the Sketches, I can only say that it is a part of my religion to look well after the cheerfulnesses of life, and let the dismals shift for themselves; believing, with good Sir Thomas More, that it is wise to be merrie in God.

As he put it, "I know that in my own case I have been greatly helped by the confidence imposed in me since early boyhood."22 Of course, this boyhood responsibility took its toll on John D., who experienced little of the spontaneous joy or levity of youth.

Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom.

Humor is a great way to relieve stress.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

That's humour - doing what funny people have done since comedy began without being edgy and pushing boundaries.

I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.

I still like farts. I still think farts are some of the funniest things.

I always believe that funny is serious and serious is funny. You don't really need a distinction between them.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

How big are you, really? I always say that I'm two inches... from the floor.

Fiction cannot move so much, but that the attention may be easily transferred; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another; that different auditors have different habitudes; and that, upon the whole, all pleasure consists in variety.

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.