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Leonard Cohen Quotes

I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery Picture Quote #1

I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and I was passing through Picture Quote #1

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross Picture Quote #1

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty Picture Quote #1

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start Picture Quote #1

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender Picture Quote #1

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Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was,

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone Picture Quote #1

They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion Picture Quote #1

Maybe there's a God above, as for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, it's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light no it's a cold and it's a very lonely hallelujah Picture Quote #1

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire Picture Quote #1

I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios Picture Quote #1

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Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies Picture Quote #1

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come Picture Quote #1

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world Picture Quote #1

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations Picture Quote #1

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! Picture Quote #1

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it Picture Quote #1

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I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door Picture Quote #1

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover Picture Quote #1

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say Picture Quote #1

In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

It's a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too Picture Quote #1

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man Picture Quote #1

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There's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep Picture Quote #1

As the mist leaves no scar on the dark green hill so my body leaves no scar on you and never will Picture Quote #1

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty Picture Quote #1

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me. When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery (Leonard Cohen Quotes) I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and I was passing through (Leonard Cohen Quotes) And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross (Leonard Cohen Quotes) Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty (Leonard Cohen Quotes) From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start (Leonard Cohen Quotes) It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender (Leonard Cohen Quotes) Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah." (Leonard Cohen Quotes) My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone (Leonard Cohen Quotes) They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion (Leonard Cohen Quotes) Maybe there's a God above, as for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, it's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light no it's a cold and it's a very lonely hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Quotes) He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire (Leonard Cohen Quotes) I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios (Leonard Cohen Quotes) Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies (Leonard Cohen Quotes) The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come (Leonard Cohen Quotes) I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world (Leonard Cohen Quotes) I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations (Leonard Cohen Quotes) Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! (Leonard Cohen Quotes) It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it (Leonard Cohen Quotes) I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door (Leonard Cohen Quotes) After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover (Leonard Cohen Quotes) Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say (Leonard Cohen Quotes) In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!" (Leonard Cohen Quotes) It's a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too (Leonard Cohen Quotes) If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man (Leonard Cohen Quotes) There's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep (Leonard Cohen Quotes) As the mist leaves no scar on the dark green hill so my body leaves no scar on you and never will (Leonard Cohen Quotes) As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty (Leonard Cohen Quotes) When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you (Leonard Cohen Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)

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