I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
LEONARD COHENHe can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
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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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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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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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Do not be a magician – be magic!
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My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
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I’m planning a catastrophe.
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And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
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I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
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European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
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We’ve got to learn to love appearances.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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Love is the only engine of survival.
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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I will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
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A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
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