I 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.
LEONARD COHENHere’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Your body will never be familiar.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHEN






