If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENAvoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Your body will never be familiar.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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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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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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