The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Avoid 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.
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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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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.
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