Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHENWe are ugly but we have the music.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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 have tried in my way to be free.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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