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The Flame QUOTES

The Flame QUOTES

1 " Fare thee well my nightingale
I lived but to be near you
Though you are singing somewhere still
I can no longer hear you "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

2 " I tried to cry, there were no tears
I tried to laugh, there was no scorn
I tried to run, there was no road
I tried to die, I was not born "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

3 " I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face— "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

4 " I pray for courage

I pray for courage
Now I’m old
To greet the sickness
And the cold

I pray for courage
In the night
To bear the burden
Make it light

I pray for courage
In the time
When suffering comes and
Starts to climb

I pray for courage
At the end
To see death coming
As a friend "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

5 " As he died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

6 " When I am alone
You'll come back to me
It's happened before
It's called memory

I'm not even sure
If I know where to start
But starting is second
First we must part
I'm too tired now
To fight anymore
We're saying goodbye
At the innermost door "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

7 " Crazy to Love You"

I had to go crazy to love you
Had to go down to the pit
Had to do time in the tower
Now I'm too tired to quit

I had to go crazy to love you
You who were never the one
Whom I chased through the souvenir heartache
My braids and my blouse all undone

Sometimes I'd head for the highway
I'm old and the mirrors don't lie
But crazy has places to hide me
Deeper than saying goodbye

I had to go crazy to love you
Had to let everything fall
Had to be people I hated
Had to be no one at all

Tired of choosing desire
I've been saved by a blessed fatigue
The gates of commitment unwired
And nobody trying to leave

Sometimes I'd head for the highway
I'm old and the mirrors don't lie
But crazy had places to hide me
Deeper than saying goodbye "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

8 " to the young let me say:
I am not sage, rebbe, roshi, guru
I am Bad Example.
to experienced persons
who have criticized my life work
as cheap, superficial, pretentious, insignificant:
you do not know
how Right you are "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

9 " We made a little garden
in the middle of L.A.
so our hearts
they wouldn’t harden & our spirits
they could play "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

10 " to the young let me say:
I am not sage, rebbe, roshi, guru,
I am Bad Example.
to experienced persons
who have criticized my life work
as cheap, superficial, pretentious, insignificant:
you do not know
how Right you are. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

11 " All your stupid charities have armed the poor against you. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

12 " I was funding my depression; meeting Christ and reading Marx. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

13 " steer your way through the pain that is far more real than you "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

14 " to the young let me say:
I am not sage, rebbe, roshi, guru
I am Bad Example.
to experienced persons
who have criticized my life work
as cheap, superficial, pretentious, insignificant:
you do not know
how Right you are. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

15 " My love is blonde and ancient
I met her by the sea
she was putting things together
and she needed some of me "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

16 " I was always working steady, but I never called it art. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

17 " I was always working steady
But I never called it art
Meeting Jesus reading Marx
Sure it failed my little fire
But it's bright the dying spark
Go tell the young messiah
What happens to the heart "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

18 " It was nothing, it was business but it left an ugly mark. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

19 " I was always working steady
But I never called it art
Meeting Jesus reading Marx
Sure it failed my little fire
But it's bright the dying spark
Go tell the young messiah
What happens to the heart. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame

20 " No juice to be hopeless, no heart to be sad.
I tried in the wind, tried in the sand. "

― Leonard Cohen , The Flame