I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENPlease 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Avoid 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.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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