I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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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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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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