Leonard Cohen Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Hate, Past, Greed

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

• 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

  Peace, Morning, Distance

• It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Hate

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

• In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

  Leonard Cohen

  Morning, Lying, Moving

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.115, Omnibus Press

• I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

  Leonard Cohen

  Regret, Congratulations, Past

• Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.

  Leonard Cohen

  Past, Somewhere Else, Cities

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

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