Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENWell, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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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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