Leonard Cohen on ignorance
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.”
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is the only engine of survival.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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 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
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I’ve grown tired of playing the warrior In the battle between me And my demons.
J.S BrownJ.S Brown No matter how many storms pass through it, this heart is still a gentle thing.
Sabina LauraSabina Laura If you want to start something great, you need commitment. But if you want to finish that something great, you need consistency.
Alison ButcherAlison Butcher Abundance is my birthright it starts with harvesting my inner light.
Shannon Van AlstShannon Van Alst I believed in the magic we made, but you were the magician and i was merely your puppet on stage.
Sophie AliaSophie Alia Eternity is vague. Let me fill in the blanks with you.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt Action is the key that solves all your problems.
Abel StarcAbel Starc His promises looked so promising that she just ignored the blatant truths.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey
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Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost without a commander; and a woman is lost without a husband.
ChanakyaChanakya Only you know how far you’ve truly come. Please don’t ever let that go unnoticed.
Dau VoireDau Voire Pretty girls behave best when you ignore them.
Chetan BhagatChetan Bhagat Don’t expect others to listen to your advice and ignore your example.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.H. Jackson Brown Jr. Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. People try to say to me, ‘I just heard someone say this or that about you,’ and I just ignore it because it’s irrelevant. Love is what makes the world go around, and that’s all we need to focus on.
Miley CyrusMiley Cyrus Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of AssisiFrancis of Assisi There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy