Dream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
LEONARD COHENDream after dream we all lie in each other’s arms.
LEONARD COHENOnly one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.
LEONARD COHENWe’ve got to learn to love appearances.
LEONARD COHENHow can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHENTo kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle’s shoulder.
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 COHENDear Hitler Take away the torches I’m not guilty I had to have this.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
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 COHENI’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.
LEONARD COHENCoroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHENHe knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.
LEONARD COHENYou live your life as if it’s real, a thousand kisses deep.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHEN