Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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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.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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