The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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