I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENYou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
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You go your way I’ll go your way too.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was Hallelujah.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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Ah, grief makes us precise!
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We are ugly but we have the music.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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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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When passion dies friendship hovers round our flesh like flies.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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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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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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