Leonard Cohen Quotes

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

I love vulnerability. It's what keeps me soft and from becoming emotionally calcified.

Showing your emotions is not a weakness.

I am an emotional person, but I am not embarrassed by that.

As Christians, we are not to be people without feelings.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

I am actually very in touch with all of my emotions, from joy to pain, and I am free with them.

I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

I'm an emotional person. I may not seem that way, but I'm an emotional person.

I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.

I don't mean to be so sensitive, but that's just who I am. And I'm not afraid to admit it.

I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

I'm sensitive. I'm proud of being sensitive. I'm proud of being empathetic.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.