Leonard Cohen Quotes

A teacher I once had told me that the older you get, the lonelier you become and the deeper the love...

Success is survival.

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

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallel...

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ...

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

At first first nothing will happen to usand later on it will happen to us again.

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in th...

Sexuality is general, and although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in h...

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have t...

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

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

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to cal...

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreed...

Music is the emotional life of most people.

I heard of a manwho says words so beautifullythat if he only speaks their namewomen give themselves ...

There is a crack in everything

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chantin...

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That'...

Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...

Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed ...

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights ...

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To M...

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

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

so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...So ring the bells that still can ringForget ...

At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challeng...

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face...

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation ...

Ah, grief makes us precise!

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the w...

My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret

... i didn't fall in love of courseit's never up to youbut she was walking back and forthand i was p...

DEAR DI­ARYYou are greater than the BibleAnd the Con­fer­ence of the BirdsAnd the Up­an­ishadsAll pu...

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

You should gofrom place to placerecovering the poemsthat have been written for youto which you can a...

The RemoteI often think about youwhen I’m lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost...

Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who car...

Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and ea...

Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless s...

Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows th...

Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until ...

Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,but I fear I will never findthe formu...

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

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shoulde...

I walk through the old yellow sunlightto get to my kitchen tablethe poem about melying there with th...

Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others

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

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple

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

If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon.