When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENIt’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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