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 COHENThe maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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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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