More from Leonard Cohen
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 CohenLeonard Cohen I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t even hate books anymore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
Mitch AlbomMitch Albom Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.
Mitch AlbomMitch Albom The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.
Steven PressfieldSteven Pressfield I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.
Aretha FranklinAretha Franklin If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you.
Bruno MarsBruno Mars In seeing wounds heal, I saw a body that loved itself enough to not let it hurt forever. And I learned. – my body knew self love before I did.
W. ShaykW. Shayk I think I really scored with my parents. All of my friends pretty much came from broken homes, and my parents are still together, but not only that, they’re still in love and still write together.
Winona RyderWinona Ryder You be the love everyone else took for granted.
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