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.
LEONARD COHENA kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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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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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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