Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHENIf you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I don’t even hate books anymore.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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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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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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