Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHENI am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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There is a crack in everything.
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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 dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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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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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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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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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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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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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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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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