"Most of the time one is discouraged by……" — Leonard Cohen
"Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process."
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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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More Animate Quotes
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
— Henry David Thoreau
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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of…
— Jeff Foxworthy
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
— Lucretius
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
— Charles Lyell
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I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society…
— Albert Hofmann
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
— Louis Sullivan
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The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air…
— Ludwig Boltzmann
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As…
— William J. Clinton
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
— Unknown Author
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Felt is not the easiest thing to animate. It's very flimsy.
— Spike Jonze
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