I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHENGarages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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