Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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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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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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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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