Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHENRemember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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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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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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