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 COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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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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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.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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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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