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Leonard Cohen - From the Aging category:
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Beginning category:
The birds they sing at break of day, 'Start again...' I hear them say. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Complaining category:
When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain... (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Confession category:
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Depression category:
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Desperation category:
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Dreams category:
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Drunkenness category:
Like a bird on the wire, / Like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Drunkenness category:
I fought against the bottle, but I had to do it drunk. Took my diamond to the pawn shop, but that don't make it junk. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Ego category:
Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Freedom category:
All the Men will be sailors then, until the sea shall free them. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Gender category:
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Humanity category:
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Love category:
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Love category:
Well, you know that I love to live with you, / But you make me forget so very much /
I forget to pray for the angel /
And then the angels forget to pray for us. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Love category:
-The Smokey Life...
Remember when the scenery started fading; I held you till you learned to walk on air. So don't look down, the ground is gone. There's no one waiting anyway... (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Miracles category:
If you're squeezed for information, / that's when you've got to play it dumb: / You just say you're out there waiting / for the miracle, for the miracle to come. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Music category:
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Optimism category:
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 Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Order category:
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Originality category:
What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Peace category:
It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Perfection category:
Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Performance category:
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Poetry category:
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Possibilities category:
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... (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Prayer category:
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Prosperity category:
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Questions category:
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood? (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Rejection category:
Well I've seen your flag on the marble arch and love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Religion category:
-Book of Mercy...
Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Revelation category:
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Shock category:
Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Sight category:
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Sleep category:
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Teaching category:
I taught him how to dress. He taught me how to live forever. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Understanding category:
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Uniqueness category:
Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Universe category:
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky. (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Winning category:
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year.' (Leonard Cohen)
Leonard Cohen - From the Wonder category:
Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder. (Leonard Cohen)
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