Leonard Cohen Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through
And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.
We sold ourselves for love but now we are free
I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me
I'm so sorry for that ghost I made you be
Only one of us was real and that was me
There's no forsaking what you love
no existential leap
as witnessed here in time and blood
a thousand kisses deep
no existential leap
as witnessed here in time and blood
a thousand kisses deep
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.
When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain ...
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.
The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
The Remote
I often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed.
I often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed.
I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.
To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!