When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENWhen you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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It is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
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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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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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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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