More from Leonard Cohen
You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
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