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.
LEONARD COHENWe 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.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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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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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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