The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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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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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
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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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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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I have tried in my way to be free.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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