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 COHENI 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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