"The last refuge of the insomniac is a……" — Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to… - Leonard Cohen

"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world."

— Leonard Cohen

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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.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
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 Insomnia Quotes

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The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night… — Gaston Bachelard
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much. — Yogi Berra
Love without conversation is impossible. — Mortimer Adler
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed. — Ambrose Bierce
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. — Louis D. Brandeis
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. — Charlotte Bronte
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving… — Emily Bronte
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. — Anthony Burgess
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. — Albert Camus
Every noble work is at first impossible. — Thomas Carlyle
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets… — Dale Carnegie
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. — Winston Churchill

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