Tasha Murphy > Tasha's Quotes

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”
― J.M. Barrie

“Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.”
― John Green

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.”
― Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
― Leonard Cohen

“I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”
― Leonard Cohen

“... 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

“My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.”
― Leonard Cohen

“It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”
― Leonard Cohen

“It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.”
― Leonard Cohen

“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
― Leonard Cohen

“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”
― 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.”
― Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love

“A sip of wine, a cigarette,
And then it’s time to go.
I tidied up the kitchenette;
I tuned the old banjo.
I’m wanted at the traffic-jam.
They’re saving me a seat.”
― Leonard Cohen

“We are ugly but we have the music.”
― Leonard Cohen

“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

“Ah, grief makes us precise!”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,
Everybody knows that the war is over,
Everybody knows the good guys lost.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Leonard Cohen Collection

“It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

“It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.”
― Leonard Cohen

“I dreamed about you baby.
It was just the other night.
Most of you was naked
Ah, but some of you was light.”
― Leonard Cohen

“After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen

“I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.”
― Leonard Cohen

“We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
― Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs