More from Leonard Cohen
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
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One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did.
Alexander FlemingAlexander Fleming The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
Melinda GatesMelinda Gates The easiest way to kill a cult is to make that cult accessible.
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.
Elton JohnElton John The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
Jean CocteauJean Cocteau Time is the best killer.
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie My mama always told me never put off till tomorrow people you can kill today.
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