Leonard Cohen Quotes

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen

Everything, Light, Crack

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

Sense, Last, Sleeping

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

Rain, Waiting, Someone

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

Young, Old, Face

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

Poetry, Life, Evidence

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

Children, Made, Show

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

Love, Woman, Battle

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

Faith, True, Justice

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

Dreams, Good, Truth

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen

Work, Hard, Place

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.
Leonard Cohen

Bad, Feet, Glass

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

Dreams, Nation, Beyond

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
Leonard Cohen

Show, Older, Running

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Sadness, Down

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.
Leonard Cohen

Time, Yourself, Thinking

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Understand, Young

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Friends, Read

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Depression, Nothing

Success is survival.
Leonard Cohen

Success, Survival

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen

Small, Try, Writer

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
Leonard Cohen

Wanted, Write, Pay

Music is the emotional life of most people.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Music, Emotional

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Love, Live

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
Leonard Cohen

Write, Road, Stability

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Born: September 21, 1934

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