black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Leonard Cohen

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Character Friendship
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Grief Suffering
It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy Result
I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHEN

Forget Important Myself Reading World
Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHEN

Grief One Liner
European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHEN

Children Death Growth Leadership Parents War
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
LEONARD COHEN

Philosophy World
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 COHEN

Feeling Myself Rain Skin Wait
Please 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.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Empty Hard Time Lonely Myself Philosophy
I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHEN

Forgiveness Happiness I Miss You Myself
Do not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHEN

Magic Self Love
There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHEN

Light Philosophy
My reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHEN

Alone Laugh Man Myself Night Reputation
Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHEN

Attachment Old Philosophy
Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN

Care Forgiveness
Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
LEONARD COHEN

Breathe Myself Remember Yourself

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Leonard Cohen Quotes