Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
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Famous Leonard Cohen Quotes
Source: Beautiful Losers
“Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others”
“At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.”
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
Source: Beautiful Losers
Source: Book of Longing
“It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”
“Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love”
Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel
“Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.”
“And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty.”
“A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel
“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
“In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.”
“A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.”
Source: The Favourite Game
Source: Beautiful Losers
Source: Book of Mercy