More from Leonard Cohen
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I don’t even hate books anymore.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a crack in everything.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen
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From our community writers
Find someone who can hear you even when you’re silent.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
Danielle MontgomeryDanielle Montgomery Hidden in the ashes, of a fallen building lays a child’s family photo, with whom he could never unite in life.
Heba NazarHeba Nazar To love something, someone. You don’t need to own them.
Sonika MSonika M When you miss someone, you realize their worth and your faith.
Aradhna S BirenAradhna S Biren The bed was the canvas, we were the art.
Jonny OxJonny Ox Every little part of your soul was made to shine.
Ashley PrzywolskiAshley Przywolski When in truth, it is the transparency that kills you. The pain of seeing through to something you can never quite touch.
Lang LeavLang Leav
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More on heaven
On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert BrowningRobert Browning The rich have no more of the kingdom of heaven than they have purchased of the poor by their alms.
John DonneJohn Donne If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, Or what’s a heaven for?
Robert BrowningRobert Browning The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
St. JeromeSt. Jerome For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
NostradamusNostradamus