We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
LEONARD COHENWe are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
LEONARD COHENWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENI told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.
LEONARD COHENI’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHENShe was made of flesh and eyelashes.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENAnything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENA kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHENOrdinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHENIn our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHENThere is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHEN