The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Quote by Leonard Cohen

Topics: Catastrophe Quotes

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is...

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often....

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often....

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly...

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly...

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is...

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the...

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the...

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence...

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence...

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting...

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is...

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a...

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a...

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of...

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of...

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist...

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist...

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart...

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart...

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever....

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever....

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we...

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we...

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority

I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice...

I don't want to pull over right now, but I just downed an Arizona Ice...