When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.
LEONARD COHENI dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you were naked Ah, but some of you was light.
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
-
-
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
LEONARD COHEN -
A young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHEN -
Coroner’s inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn’t been to the seashore in ten years.
LEONARD COHEN -
I ache in the places where I used to play.
LEONARD COHEN -
Who could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHEN -
Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.
LEONARD COHEN -
He 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 COHEN -
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.
LEONARD COHEN -
Avoid 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 COHEN -
Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.
LEONARD COHEN -
First of all, nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
LEONARD COHEN -
It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
LEONARD COHEN -
Ah, grief makes us precise!
LEONARD COHEN -
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
LEONARD COHEN -
I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.
LEONARD COHEN






