My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENGoing nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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The maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
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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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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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