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

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Never make a decision when you need to pee.”
― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

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

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

“I have often prayed for you
like this
Let me have her”
― Leonard Cohen

“Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.”
― Leonard Cohen

“He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah”
― Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

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

“There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Silence

And a deeper silence

When the crickets

Hesitate”
― Leonard Cohen

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”
― Leonard Cohen, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Herewith: Music, Words and Photographs

“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

“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Favorite Game

“I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“دنياي أنت وفرحتي ومنى الفؤاد إذا تمنى
أنت السماء بدت لنا وأستعصمت بالبعد عنا”
― إدريس جماع, لحظات باقية

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise.”
― Nāgārjuna

“To study the Buddha Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of enlightenment remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.”
― Dogen