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.
LEONARD COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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