There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENI’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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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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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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.
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