Leonard Cohen Quotes
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Leonard Cohen Quotes & Sayings
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
— Leonard Cohen
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.
— Leonard Cohen
...And everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
— Leonard Cohen
Don't dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.
— Leonard Cohen
I know she is coming I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book. — Leonard Cohen
Games are nature's most beautiful creation
— Leonard Cohen
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
— Leonard Cohen
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, Hallelujah.
— Leonard Cohen
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
— Leonard Cohen
I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.
— Leonard Cohen
I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
— Michelle Williams
Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
— Leonard Cohen
You go your wayI'll go your way too — Leonard Cohen
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
— Leonard Cohen
Your body will never be familiar.
— Leonard Cohen
To the men and women who own men and womenthose of us meant to be lovers
we will not pardon you
for wasting our bodies and time — Leonard Cohen
I'll be marching through the morning,Marching through the night,
Moving 'cross the borders
Of My Secret Life. — Leonard Cohen
I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.
— Leonard Cohen
I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
— Leonard Cohen
There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.
— Leonard Cohen
The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.
— Leonard Cohen
It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. — Leonard Cohen
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple
— Leonard Cohen
Marita, Please find me,
I am almost 30 — Leonard Cohen
I don't rememberlighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone. — Leonard Cohen
Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.
— Leonard Cohen
The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
— Leonard Cohen
Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die — Leonard Cohen
We are ugly but we have the music.
— Leonard Cohen
it's closing time
— Leonard Cohen
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
It's you my love, you who are the stranger.
— Leonard Cohen
Love is the only engine of survival
— Leonard Cohen
Music-wise, I listen to everything. Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman - I guess I like a lot of '70s music.
— Bret McKenzie
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!
— Leonard Cohen
To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder.
— Leonard Cohen
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
— Leonard Cohen
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
— Leonard Cohen
Ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars
— Leonard Cohen
My abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
— Leonard Cohen
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
— Leonard Cohen
I have tried in my way to be free.
— Leonard Cohen
I am not the one who loves -It's love that chooses me. — Leonard Cohen
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
— Leonard Cohen
I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
— Leonard Cohen
Pigskin crackling on my thumb, nummy nummy I hate pain.
— Leonard Cohen
I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.
— Leonard Cohen
Deprivation is the mother of poetry.
— Leonard Cohen
There is a crack in everything
— Leonard Cohen
The RemoteI often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed. — Leonard Cohen
You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.
— Leonard Cohen
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
— Leonard Cohen
Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in ...
— Leonard Cohen
Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.
— Leonard Cohen
I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.
— Leonard Cohen
I'm old and the mirrors don't lie.
— Leonard Cohen
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
— Leonard Cohen
You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start ... for feeling good.
— Leonard Cohen
I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.
— Leonard Cohen
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.
— Leonard Cohen
The first star tonight insanely high, virgin, calm.I have one hour of peace before the documented planets burn me down. — Leonard Cohen
Do not be a magician - be magic!
— Leonard Cohen
I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
— Leonard Cohen
You came to me this morningAnd you handled me like meat
You'd have to be a man to know
How good that feels, how sweet — Leonard Cohen
Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.
— Leonard Cohen
No one masters the heart.
— Leonard Cohen
I don't want to be a star, merely dying.
— Leonard Cohen
even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.
— Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.-Leonard Cohen
— Bailey Bristol
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ... for trying to change the system from within
— Leonard Cohen
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.
— Leonard Cohen
Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.
— Leonard Cohen
Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.
— Leonard Cohen
His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.
— Leonard Cohen
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
— Leonard Cohen
I am not the one who loved, it's love that chooses me.When hatred with it's package comes, you forbid delivery. — Leonard Cohen
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.
— Leonard Cohen
The sweetest little song:You go your way
I'll go your way too! — Leonard Cohen
