Leonard Cohen on feeling
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.”
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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 CohenLeonard Cohen There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is the only engine of survival.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Love looks good on you never let them make you feel otherwise.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh It’s hard when all you want is the sky, chasing after the hues of pinks and blues, feeling that for once you’ve got a grip on clouds that swoosh through storms of your own. But it’s worse when you ask for the sun and receiving the soil stuck to your feet.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole It’s both a blessing and a curse to feel so much.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford It’s those Saturday mornings laughing underneath the sheets it’s a glimpse of everything I dreamed that makes me feel hope for us. Saturdays could be our thing.
Allie MillerAllie Miller You must be the modern Midas because I am begging for your touch it is the only thing that makes me feel like gold.
Bailey RaeBailey Rae Tied up by my heartstrings, I can’t break free from feelings – the restraints too tight, the love too strong.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch Your love is not just a feeling but a knowing.
Rhiannon JanaeRhiannon Janae I use ink to bleed and words to heal it’s all I ever need to let my heart feel.
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