If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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