Leonard Cohen Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Betrayal, Sleep

• When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loneliness, Feelings, Holy

  Song: Sisters Of Mercy, 1967

• 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.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loneliness, Thinking, Soul

  Leonard Cohen (2001). “Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)”, p.85, Hal Leonard Corporation

• You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

  Leonard Cohen

  Feel Good, Feelings, Youth

  Interview with Suzanne Vega, www.suzannevega.com. October 1992.

• Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dog, Father, Talking

  "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

• It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.

  Leonard Cohen

  Elderly, Feelings, Way

  "Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Music And Why He Left The Zen Monastery". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 21, 2016.

• I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

  Leonard Cohen

  Feelings, Don't Trust, Comes And Goes

  Song: That Don't Make It Junk, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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