A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHENI 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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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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My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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