Leonard Cohen Quotes

I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart

I am not the one
you are looking for.
You are not the one
I’ve stopped looking for.

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.

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

The day wasn't exactly my own
since I checked
and found it on a public calendar.
Tripping over many pairs of legs
as I walked down the park
I also learned my lust
was not so rare a masterpiece.

Well, I've been waiting, I was sure
we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for
I think it's time to board another
Please understand, I never had a secret chart
to get me to the heart of this
or any other matter

Baby, I've been waiting,
I've been waiting night and day
I didn't see the time,
I waited half my life away

I am locked in a very expensive suit
old elegant and enduring
Only my hair has been able to get free
but someone has been leaving
their dandruff in it
Now I will tell you
all there is to know about optimism
Each day in hub cap mirror
in soup reflection
in other people's spectacles
I check my hair
for an army of alpinists
for Indian rope trick masters
for tangled aviators
for dove and albatross
for insect suicides
for abominable snowmen
I check my hair
for aerialists of every kind
Dedicated as an automatic elevator
I comb my hair for possibilities
I stick my neck out
I lean illegally from locomotive windows
and only for the barber
do I wear a hat

there's no forsaking what you love
no existential leap
as witnessed here in time and blood
a thousand kisses deep

You don't know me from the wind
you never will, you never did
I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible.
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
but love's the only engine of survival.

He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

I told you when I came I was a stranger.

Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.