More from Leonard Cohen
You go your way I’ll go your way too.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are ugly but we have the music.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Do not be a magician – be magic!
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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Mental health doesn’t have to be an uphill battle.
Isabel RocioIsabel Rocio The worst thing is not to share our pain with each other when you can.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase I have happened in so many places, to so many people – the essence of me lives on in these nuances, these moments.
Lang LeavLang Leav Respect your body, it’s a home to be thankful for.
SargamSargam My heart holds your name like it’s the only thing it knows.
N.M SanchezN.M Sanchez Listening and empathizing will enable you to look past fake smiles and dive deeper into the pain in their eyes.
Ankur SinghAnkur Singh I heard the universe whisper “take care of her”
Karla GaleanaKarla Galeana Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.
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More on destruction
To never do the things I’ve done that once had led to my undoing.
Lang LeavLang Leav And man’s destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man’s humanity to man and man’s reverence for the place in which he lives.
Alan PatonAlan Paton Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away – he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.
Nigel FarageNigel Farage And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein’s ‘weapons of mass destruction.
Alan GreenspanAlan Greenspan The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
Alan KayAlan Kay Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
Nikita GillNikita Gill Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
Nikita GillNikita Gill People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
Nikita GillNikita Gill
