Leonard Cohen quotes - page 6

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. (Leonard Cohen)
As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will. View quote
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Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others. View quote
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I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone. View quote
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I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. View quote
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A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat. View quote
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It doesn't matter how anything happens. View quote
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But let's not talk of love or chains and things we can't untie, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. View quote
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O you've seen that man before his golden arm dispatching cards but now it's rusted from the elbow to the finger. View quote
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? View quote
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I haven't been this happy since the end of World War II. (Leonard Cohen)
Well Marianne it's come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon. View quote
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I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful. .... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through. View quote
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Love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah. View quote
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Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned. View quote
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The sweetest little song: You go your way I'll go your way too! View quote
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Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked By the winds of change and the weeds of sex looks like freedom but it feels like death it's something in between, I guess it's closing time. View quote
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I raise my glass to the Awful Truth, Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth, Except to say it isn't worth a dime, And the whole damn place goes crazy twice, And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ. View quote
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Goodbye old friend. Endless love, see you down the road. View quote
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I see you standing on the other side. I don't know how the river got so wide. View quote
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You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell. (Leonard Cohen)
I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. View quote
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There's a blaze of light in every word It doesn't matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah. View quote
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I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent everyday In the Tower Of Song. View quote
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so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos... So ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. View quote
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