How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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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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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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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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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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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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