Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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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.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
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A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
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I’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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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.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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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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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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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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There is a crack in everything.
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To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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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 don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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