Source: Beautiful Losers
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Famous Leonard Cohen Quotes
“Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.”
“Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory”
Source: Book of Longing
“Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.”
“When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.”
“My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.”
“I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.”
“And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion”
“The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say”
Source: The Favourite Game
“The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.”
Source: Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen
“I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.”
“G-d is alive. Magic is afoot. G-d is afoot. Magic is alive.”
“You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.”
“All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.”
“Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.”
“You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.”
“The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.”
“I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.”