Leonard Cohen Quotes

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  There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Motivational, Inspiring

  Song: Anthem

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  I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

  Leonard Cohen

  Sorrow, Despair, Sides

  Song: Heart With No Companion, Album: Various Positions, 1984

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• To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Responsibility, Urgent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Never make a decision when you need to pee.

  Leonard Cohen

  Decision, Needs

  "Beautiful Losers". Book by Leonard Cohen, 1966.

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• May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

  Leonard Cohen

  Blessing, Solitude, Family And Friends

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• We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

  Leonard Cohen

  Disappear, Made

  Song: Boogie Street, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dark, Journey, Mad

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• Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

  Leonard Cohen

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Leonard Cohen: Most Iconic Quotes" by Katie O'malley, www.elle.com. November 11, 2016.

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• How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

  Leonard Cohen

  Yesterday

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.56, Vintage

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• I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hate, Wish, Ends

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.187, Emblem Editions

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• Love is the only engine of survival

  Leonard Cohen

  Love Is, Survival, Engines

  Song: The Future, Album: The Future, 1992

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• If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

  Leonard Cohen

  Inspiring, Ocean, Chaos

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• It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Heart, Broken

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• We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

  Leonard Cohen

  Stars, Sky, Universe

  Song: Stories Of The Street, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• In the broken places, the light shines through.

  Leonard Cohen

  Light, Broken, Shining

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• You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pain, Sadness, Wish

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.34, Omnibus Press

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• Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Reality, Possibility

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• 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

  Rain, Optimistic, Reality

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• I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

  Leonard Cohen

  Want, Pay, Paid

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• The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

  Leonard Cohen

  Running, Shows

  "On the Road, for Reasons Practical and Spiritual" by Larry Rohter, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2009.

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• When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

  Leonard Cohen

  Glasses, Feet, Relaxation

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• Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

  Leonard Cohen

  Wise, Men, Chaos

  Song: Teachers, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

  Leonard Cohen

  Emotional, Masterpiece, Slips

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Bird, Wire

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.41, Omnibus Press

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• I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

  Leonard Cohen

  Crush, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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