I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENStunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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.
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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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Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
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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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There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
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Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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Then let’s be quiet together.
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You live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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There is a crack in everything.
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As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
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