It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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