Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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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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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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