More from Leonard Cohen
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m planning a catastrophe.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
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Soren KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard “I just like being with you.” And just like that my heart collapsed under the weight of his eyes on me.
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