I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENAvoid 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.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHENAnything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENIt doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHENLove is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHENI don’t even hate books anymore.
LEONARD COHENGoing nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.
LEONARD COHENGames are nature’s most beautiful creation.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHENDear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
LEONARD COHEN