Megan Ganz

You want to represent it accurately, and the accurate representation of quarantine is not that it's sad all the time or that people are struggling constantly, it's that there are these moments of hardship and then there are intense moments of levity and kinship and people supporting each other.

American Writer

Helen Oyeyemi

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer.

British Novelist

Emily Meade

People are apprehensive about finding 'The Leftovers' funny because it's such a dark circumstance, but I think, really, what the show is about is examining how different people deal with loss. There are elements of humour and levity and irony in that... just like in real life.

American Actress

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I just try to write what I think would really happen, and with grief and tragedy, there are these naturally occurring moments of levity and humor and absurdity. I think that's what life is really like. Sadness gets interrupted, and happiness gets interrupted.

Jessica Rothe

I love down-and-dirty and grit. But I do think that my favorite dramas are ones that are dark comedies because I think that the only way the audience and the actor can really go as dark and deep as you may want to go is if there's some levity added to it.

Edward Irving

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.

Scottish Clergyman

Brian Eno

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

British Musician

Doris Day

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

Sheryl Crow

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

American Musician

Akiva ben Joseph

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

Clergyman

Levity often introduces a relaxed, friendly vibe in a social or professional setting.

Social Lightness

Use levity carefully; it might be seen as inappropriate or disrespectful in serious situations.

Not Always Appropriate

Levity can be used strategically to defuse a tense or awkward situation.

Break Tension

Levity emphasizes light weight or low density in physical objects, often in a scientific context.

Physical Lightness

In technical discussions, levity may refer to an advantageous property of a material or design.

Technical Application

Understanding when to discuss the levity of an object is important; it's primarily used in specialized or technical conversations.

Context Matters

 downloaded, streaming, HD reality. We are interacting with our entertainment. I have come to expect this level of interaction. Without it, the problems faced in the real world -- poverty, war, disease and genocide -- lack the levity they should.