“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
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Leonard Cohen 169
Canadian poet and singer-songwriter 1934–2016Related quotes

“I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.”

The Human Comedy (1943)
Context: Everything is changed — for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the whole world has always been full of that loneliness. The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.

[Drape, Joe, Friendship Forged in Youth Fuels Touchdowns at Ohio State, D3, New York Times, 2006-09-23, 2007-01-23]