How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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