Leonard Cohen Quotes

As we get older, we tend to think it is less OK to be vulnerable and to feel what we feel. It's kind of bull. We all still feel things pretty deeply. It just becomes less socially acceptable to express that.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

It is difficult for someone raised in my world to learn to express emotion. We are taught early to hide our feelings publicly.

I'm not too big on feelings.

I was brought up in a fairly emotionally repressed kind of society in Northeast England where one didn't express emotions and was expected to keep a stiff upper lip.

I'm not an emotional person. I don't use the emotion train that much. I just use the happy card.

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.

It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins.

We must be amusing at all times and sneer at those who express their real feelings; it's dangerous for a tribe to allow its members to show their feelings.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely.

The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

The only feelings you really need to fear are those you ignore.

Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

If you allowed yourself to hear or feel amusement, you would hear and feel pain.

I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.

We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.