5 Leonard Cohen Quotes on Loss

Leonard Cohen quotes on loss

2. Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time

16. 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.

42. And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.

47. I'll try to say a little more: Love went on and on Until it reached an open door - Then Love Itself Love Itself was gone.

54. So the great affair is over/ but whoever would have guessed/ it would leave us all so vacant/ and so deeply unimpressed/ It's like our visit to the moon/ or to that other star/ I guess you go for nothing/ if you really want to go that far