"Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but……" — Leonard Cohen
"Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site.
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
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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.…
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
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The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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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…
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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
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We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
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Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
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Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
— Aeschylus
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in…
— Benjamin Carson
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I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts…
— Mary Susanne Edgar
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Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a…
— Frederik Willem de Klerk
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Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign
— Frederik Willem de Klerk
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Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare…
— William Shakespeare
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with…
— Seneca the Younger
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Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes…
— Mark Twain
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Here's how you know that you're really drunk: when you get into a taxi cab and you think the fare…
— Dane Cook
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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Travel Far, Pay No Fare... a book can take you anywhere.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of…
— Adam Smith
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