If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
LEONARD COHENIf you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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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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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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