We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
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 COHENDeprivation is the mother of poetry.
LEONARD COHENIn our rags of light, all dressed to kill.
LEONARD COHENYou wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHENI will never find the faces for all the goodbyes I’ve made.
LEONARD COHENAnything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
LEONARD COHENLove is not a victory march it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
LEONARD COHENGarages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.
LEONARD COHENThe older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
LEONARD COHENI’m old and the mirrors don’t lie.
LEONARD COHENMy interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
LEONARD COHENChildren show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENHere’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.
LEONARD COHEN