Leonard Cohen on disappear
Leonard Cohen98 quotes“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
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Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Going 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.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is the only engine of survival.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears with one chord.
Carlos SantanaCarlos Santana It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.
Nicole KidmanNicole Kidman The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.
AvicennaAvicenna If you’re walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.
Betty WhiteBetty White I’m looking for me to disappear, and the acting to disappear, and all you see is a real person.
Michael CaineMichael Caine Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Pain results from a judgment you have made about a thing. Remove the judgment and the pain disappears.
Neale Donald WalschNeale Donald Walsch I like the idea about somewhere there being a world… somewhere there’s a world that I don’t know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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