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Leonard Cohen Quotes about Loneliness

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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

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.

Leonard Cohen
Loneliness, Mean, Bears
Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.56, Vintage

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

Leonard Cohen
Dream, Loneliness, Awakening
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Leonard Cohen
Art, Loneliness, Gun
Song: Love Calls You By Your Name, Album: Songs of Love and Hate, 1971

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

Leonard Cohen
Loneliness, Feelings, Holy
Song: Sisters Of Mercy, 1967

I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

Leonard Cohen
Loneliness, Thinking, Two
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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