I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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Your body will never be familiar.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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