When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENGarages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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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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We are ugly but we have the music.
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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.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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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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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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