Leonard Cohen Quotes

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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

Leonard Cohen
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

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A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love...

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My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in.

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You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

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I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

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And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way

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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

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You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

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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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Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

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The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.

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Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

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I've seen the nations rise and fall. I've heard their stories, heard them all, but love's the only engine of survival.

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No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.

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I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

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If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

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What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.

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