Leonard Cohen Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Sight, Wonder

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.32, Emblem Editions

• I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Goodbye, Morning

  "Hey, that's no way to say goodbye". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1967.

• Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

  Leonard Cohen

  Time, Eye, Animal

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

• Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.

  Leonard Cohen

  Eye, Night, Hair

  "Famous Blue Raincoat". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1971.

• When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.25, Random House

• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Eye, Government

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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