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.
LEONARD COHENMy reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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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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