More from Leonard Cohen
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are ugly but we have the music.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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 CohenLeonard Cohen 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 CohenLeonard Cohen Do not be a magician – be magic!
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Ah, grief makes us precise!
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space.
Therese of LisieuxTherese of Lisieux I stepped into love with grace. I stepped out of love with grace. The beginning was beautiful. The ending was beautiful.
Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor It’s amazing to impact people’s lives – it’s a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, “It’s OK to be you.”
Kelly ClarksonKelly Clarkson Sun rises sun sets. Stick with this groove like honey to remember love.
OvyukiOvyuki The irony of crashing into me is I will show you what safety looks like.
Alyce TaylorAlyce Taylor In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
Graham GreeneGraham Greene I want you here beside me, to make me feel like the only pearl you’d be looking for in the ocean.
Zuzanna SzostakZuzanna Szostak I never saw you this way but when I did there was no way back.
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