Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
LEONARD COHENThe last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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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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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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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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Then let’s be quiet together.
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Everything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
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Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
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How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
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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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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
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Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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There is a crack in everything.
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I ache in the places where I used to play.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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Games are nature’s most beautiful creation.
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Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
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