black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.

Leonard Cohen

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHEN

Himself Love Myself Sex
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
LEONARD COHEN

Death Friendship Ourselves Passion
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 COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN

Growth Heart Touch
You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHEN

Kiss Life Live Reality Yourself
He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHEN

Feeling Hairs Himself
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
LEONARD COHEN

Ignorance Myself Possible Reality
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

Love World Yourself
I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHEN

Deep End Myself
How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHEN

Morning Taste
Never make a decision when you need to pee.
LEONARD COHEN

Decision Funny
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHEN

Myself Tree Understand
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN

Fantasy Yourself
Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHEN

Happiness Himself Philosophy
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 COHEN

Goodness Heart Himself Love Man

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Leonard Cohen Quotes