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.
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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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