Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
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Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old, and full of grief, but still not suffering.
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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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I’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
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She was made of flesh and eyelashes.
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Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
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It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
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I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
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Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
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I am not the one who loved, it’s love that chooses me.
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There is a crack in everything.
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Dear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
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You go to Heaven once you’ve been to Hell.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
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It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
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A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
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You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
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It doesn’t matter how anything happens.
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My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
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Love is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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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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Poetry is a verdict, not an occupation.
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I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts.
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