Best Quotes by Leonard Cohen (Top 10)
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
Leonard Cohen
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How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?
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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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
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Leonard Cohen
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Never make a decision when you need to pee.
Leonard Cohen
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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
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Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
Leonard Cohen
More Leonard Cohen Quotes
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We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard Cohen
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We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
Leonard Cohen
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It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.
Leonard Cohen
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Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen
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As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
Leonard Cohen
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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
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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
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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
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
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The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
Leonard Cohen
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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
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.
Leonard Cohen
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What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
Leonard Cohen
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In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen