Leonard Cohen Quotes

• Your faith was strong, but you needed proof.

  Leonard Cohen

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• Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

  Leonard Cohen

  Topics in Friendship

• I’ve forgotten most of what I’ve read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

  Leonard Cohen

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• Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

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  Tags in Romance

• First of all nothing will happen
  and a little later
  nothing will happen again.

  Leonard Cohen

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  Tags in Poetry

• To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation’s sweetest dreams of itself.

  Leonard Cohen

• There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Hope, Crack

• The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

  Leonard Cohen

• The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

  Leonard Cohen

• Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

  Leonard Cohen

• Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.

  Leonard Cohen

• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

  Leonard Cohen

• I 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 Cohen

• I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

  Leonard Cohen

• Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

  Leonard Cohen

• Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

  Leonard Cohen

• Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.

  Leonard Cohen

  Topics in Success

• A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

  Leonard Cohen

• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

  Leonard Cohen

  Topics in Life, Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry, Inspection

Leonard Cohen (19)

Birth:	21st September, 1934
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Musician, Novelist, Poet

About

Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. In 2011 Cohen received Prince of Asturias Award for literature.

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