"No penance serves to renew them, no massive……" — Leonard Cohen
"No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed."
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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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Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this…
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You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised.…
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When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.
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He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in…
— Murray Rothbard
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Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The battle is going very heavily against us. We're being crushed by the enemy weight. We are facing very difficult…
— Erwin Rommel
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many…
— Walt Whitman
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments…
— Clarence Day
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A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown…
— George Sand
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The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the…
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