When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENAvoid 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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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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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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