Top 15 Leonard Cohen Quotes

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

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

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

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

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

And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.

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

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.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .

You go your way
I'll go your way too

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

"In My Secret Life"

"I saw you this morning,
you were moving so fast.
Can't seem to loosen my grip
On the past.
And I miss you so much,
there's no one in sight.
And we're still making love
In my secret life.
I smile when I am angry,
I cheat and I lie,
I do what I have to do
to get by,
In my secret life."

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore