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#1

“There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

tags: hope, light

#2

“I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

467 likes

#3

“first of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: cohen, leonard, poetry

241 likes

#4

“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

tags: reality

269 likes

#5

“... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

tags: falling-in-love, love

246 likes

#6

“You go your way
I'll go your way too”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

337 likes

#7

“Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.”
― Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-1968

141 likes

#8

“I'm planning a catastrophe.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

120 likes

#9

“even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.”
― Leonard Cohen

81 likes

#10

“Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else."

Then let's be quiet together.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

117 likes

#11

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”
― Leonard Cohen

tags: love

110 likes

#12

“I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.”
― Leonard Cohen

49 likes

#13

“In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.”
― Leonard Cohen

39 likes

#14

“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask.

If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.

If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand.

If you want a partner in life take my hand.

I'm your man.”
― Leonard Cohen

101 likes

#15

“I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me.
When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery.”
― Leonard Cohen

35 likes

#16

“You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell”
― Leonard Cohen

54 likes

#17

“Dear Hitler
Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game

13 likes

#18

“My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

39 likes

#19

“Games are nature's most beautiful creation”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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#20

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

21592 likes

#21

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: humor, semantics, suspicion

4582 likes

#22

“It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills,
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: darkness, gollum, hobbit, riddle

1323 likes

#23

“Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: fish, riddle

231 likes

#24

“Sorry! I don't want any adventures, thank you. Not Today. Good morning! But please come to tea -any time you like! Why not tomorrow? Good bye!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: bilbo-baggins

308 likes

#25

“The road goes ever on and on”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

510 likes

#26

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

57976 likes

#27

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12454 likes

#28

“The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: gildor

1221 likes

#29

“Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: humour

550 likes

#30

“Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: timelessness

189 likes

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