"My friends are gone and my hair is……" — Leonard Cohen
"My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song."
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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen
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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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A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
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