Your body will never be familiar.
LEONARD COHENYour body will never be familiar.
LEONARD COHENOrdinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars.
LEONARD COHENGames are nature’s most beautiful creation.
LEONARD COHENIt doesn’t matter how anything happens.
LEONARD COHENWho could have foretold the heart grows cold from touching others.
LEONARD COHENHow bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings?
LEONARD COHENA young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.
LEONARD COHENI don’t want to be a star, merely dying.
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 COHENEuropean children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.
LEONARD COHENYour faith was strong, but you needed proof.
LEONARD COHENThere is a crack in everything.
LEONARD COHENThe cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
LEONARD COHENFriend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.
LEONARD COHENAnd everything depends upon how near you sleep to me.
LEONARD COHENTo discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.
LEONARD COHEN