There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENAfter a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHENWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENNever make a decision when you need to pee.
LEONARD COHENEverything has a crack in it; that’s how the light gets in.
LEONARD COHENLove is the only engine of survival.
LEONARD COHENI guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.
LEONARD COHENDream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENI’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
LEONARD COHENMy reputation as a ladies’ man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
LEONARD COHENBlessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHENI 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.
LEONARD COHENMy abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
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 COHENIt doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHEN