When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENWhen you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENThe maestro says it’s Mozart But it sounds like bubble gum.
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 a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
LEONARD COHENHe 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.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
LEONARD COHENMy abandoned narcotics have abandoned me.
LEONARD COHENI found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.
LEONARD COHENThen let’s be quiet together.
LEONARD COHENDo not be a magician – be magic!
LEONARD COHENI bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHENI’m just waiting for the miracle to come.
LEONARD COHENI cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
LEONARD COHENIt is in love that we are made, in love we disappear.
LEONARD COHEN