Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHENEverything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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There is a crack in everything.
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