576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

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

There is a crack in everything

I will starve till prophets find me,I will bleed till angels bind me,Still I sing till churches blind me,Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.

I needed so muchTo have nothing to touchI've always been greedy that way

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessedit would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressedIt's like our visit to the moon or to that other starI guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows the war is overEverybody knows the good guys lostEverybody knows the fight was fixedThe poor stay poor, the rich get richThat's how it goesEverybody knows

BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.

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