Nathan Parsons > Nathan's Quotes

“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love ”
― Leonard Cohen

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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

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

“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. ”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

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

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

“My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.”
― Leonard Cohen

“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”
― Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

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

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

“a kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.”
― 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

“Do not be a magician - be magic!”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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

“No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.”
― Edward St. Aubyn