You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHENYou go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
LEONARD COHENLove is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENDo not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHENEven damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHENA kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHENChildren show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHENStunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
LEONARD COHENI’m planning a catastrophe.
LEONARD COHENI guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHENIt’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHENPlease 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 COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHEN