Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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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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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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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.
LEONARD COHEN