When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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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.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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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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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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