I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHENYou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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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’m planning a catastrophe.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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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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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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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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In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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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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