Leonard CohenIf you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in … ▶371LifeLove
Leonard CohenEvery heart to Love will come, but like a refugee ✨ Song: Anthem, Album: The Future, 1992372HopeLoveTime
Leonard CohenThere is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. ✨ Song: Anthem373Philosophy
Leonard CohenIf I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery. ✨ Leo… ▶363Life
Leonard CohenFrom bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start. ✨ Song: Villanelle For Our Tim… ▶341HopeLoveSadness
Leonard CohenI can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.374Time
Leonard CohenWe used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes. www.imdb.com.341Death
Leonard CohenI had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune. ✨ Leonard Cohen On Poetry, Mus… ▶352Reading
Leonard CohenPrayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.78, Vi… ▶352Time
Leonard CohenEven without the mushroom cloud still I would have hated Listen I would have done the same things even if there were no death I will not be held like a drunkard under the cold tap… ▶342DeathTruth
Leonard Cohena kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2010). Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, p.43, Random House364Love
Leonard Cohenordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.48, Vintage331Thought
Leonard CohenThe Dream O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work. ✨ Leonard Coh… ▶331Love
Leonard CohenHere's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care ✨ Song: The Night Comes On, Album: Various Positions, 1984354Life
Leonard CohenAs the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will ✨ Song: True Love Leaves No Traces, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977365DeathLoveTruth
Leonard CohenHe knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2003). The Favorite Game: A Novel, Vintage Books354Reading
Leonard CohenWe do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.355Love
Leonard CohenAh, grief makes us precise! ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.20, Vintage333Sadness
Leonard CohenI think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good … ▶366ThoughtTimeTruth
Leonard CohenFollow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind. ✨ Song: Teachers, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967311Time
Leonard CohenLike a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! ✨ Leonard Cohen (2008). The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition, p.41, Omn… ▶366Thought
Leonard CohenAt first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.322Reflection
Leonard CohenCoroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). The Favourite Game, p.48, Emblem Editions333Death
Leonard CohenDeprivation is the mother of poetry. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). The Favourite Game, p.32, Emblem Editions377Love
Leonard CohenWe are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear. ✨ Song: Boogie Street, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001322Love
Leonard CohenI cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2011). Beautiful Losers, p.75, Vintage356Humanity
Leonard CohenWho could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others323Love
Leonard CohenHis vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.312Thought
Leonard CohenRaise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. ✨ Leonard Cohen (2010). Book of Mercy, p.30, McClelland & Ste… ▶346Reading
Leonard CohenA sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it’s time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I’m wanted at the traffic-jam. They’re saving me a seat. ✨ Song: Bo… ▶379DeathTime
