Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
-
-
Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHEN -
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN -
Do not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHEN -
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN -
Your body will never be familiar.
LEONARD COHEN -
Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN -
I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
LEONARD COHEN -
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHEN -
It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
LEONARD 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.
LEONARD COHEN -
Then let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD 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 COHEN -
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHEN -
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
LEONARD COHEN -
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN