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

“I'm planning a catastrophe.”

Source: The Favorite Game

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

Source: The Favorite Game

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

Then let's be quiet together.”

Source: The Favorite Game

“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.”

Source: Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

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

“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.”

“You live your life as if it's real……. a thousand kisses deep”

“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.”

Source: Dance Me to the End of Love

“I finally broke into the prison
I found my place in the chain
Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows”

"The Old Revolution"
Songs from a Room (1969)

“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

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

“We are ugly but we have the music.”

“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

“Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control,
It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”

Source: The Favorite Game

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

Source: 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.”

“If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.”

"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: When they lay down beside me I made my confession to them.
They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn,
They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.