To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older. Leonard Cohen More Quotes by Leonard Cohen More Quotes From Leonard Cohen It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace. Leonard Cohen distance morning peace You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal. Leonard Cohen locked pleasure suffering And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion Leonard Cohen percussion passion inspiration The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape. Leonard Cohen psychics depressing depression The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work. Leonard Cohen lasts taken dream I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't develop any kind of spiritual structure on that. Leonard Cohen kind grace spiritual I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. Leonard Cohen want writing pay If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery. Leonard Cohen mysterious catholic song Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it. Leonard Cohen secret mean Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee Leonard Cohen refugee heart Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours. Leonard Cohen couple drinking giving I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her Leonard Cohen let-me She was made of flesh and eyelashes. Leonard Cohen eyelashes flesh made It's you my love, you who are the stranger. Leonard Cohen stranger love-you As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line. Leonard Cohen lines matter men Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally. Leonard Cohen compassionate serious people What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit. Leonard Cohen creative purpose beautiful It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah. Leonard Cohen light broken night 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 different men hands I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order. Leonard Cohen care sides order
