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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

And what can I tell you, my brother, my killer, what can I possibly say? I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I'm glad you stood in my way — 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

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either. — Leonard Cohen

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory — Leonard Cohen

Like any joker, he was watching For the card that is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another He was just some Joseph looking for a manger — Leonard Cohen

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one. — Leonard Cohen

You go your way
I'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

What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices. — Leonard Cohen

To the men and women who own men and women
those 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

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows. — Leonard Cohen

Marita,
Please find me,
I am almost 30 — Leonard Cohen

I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone. — Leonard Cohen

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

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together. — 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 night
through 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

May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye. — 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

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything — Leonard Cohen

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. — Leonard Cohen

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender — 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

If I spelled out the Principles of Faith
I would be barking on the moon. — Leonard Cohen

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind. — 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

My animal howls
My angel's upset
But I'm not allowed
A trace of regret — 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 win a while, and then it's done - Your little winning streak. — Leonard Cohen

You came to me this morning
And 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

Don't write about ideas ... write about convictions of the heart. — Leonard Cohen

First of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again — 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

A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control. — 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

The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say — 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

At first first nothing will happen to us
and later on
it will happen to us again. — Leonard Cohen

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. — Leonard Cohen