Leonard Cohen on beginning
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I have tried in my way to be free.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your body will never be familiar.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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.
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Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah I long for You so much I follow barefoot Your frozen tracks That are high in the mountains That I know are years old. I long for You so much I have even begun to travel Where I have never been before.
HafezHafez Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
LivyLivy The sun has not yet set for all time.
LivyLivy You just have to play it cool. You don’t want everyone to know you’re an amateur.
Shawn MendesShawn Mendes The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.
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