Leonard Cohen on love
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.”
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t even hate books anymore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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From our community writers
Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat
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