Leonard Cohen Quotes

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

How may we be saints and live in golden coffins
Who will leave on our stone shelves
pathetic notes for intervention
How may we be calm marble gods at ocean altars
Who will murder us for some high reason

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.

My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

And everything depends upon how close you lie to me

what is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. if Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.

I write to murder the selves that whisper untruths to me.

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

It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.

I salute you
Brave spirit
Who has swallowed so much
And tasted so little.

We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.

You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell

From bitter searching of the heart,
quickened with passion and with pain
we rise
to play a greater part
this is the faith from which we start.