You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN
LEONARD COHEN
Leonard Cohen on fantasy
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.”
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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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Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I’m planning a catastrophe.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I ache in the places where I used to play.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Then let’s be quiet together.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.
Carl SaganCarl Sagan I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.
Dr. SeussDr. Seuss Fantasy and reality often overlap.
Walt DisneyWalt Disney Your mind doesn’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts.
Zig ZiglarZig Ziglar I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. SeussDr. Seuss If I love you it means we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses.
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