Leonard Cohen on easy
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.”
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
Leonard CohenLeonard 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.
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