19 Quotations by Leonard Cohen
- 1. A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
- 2. Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is ...
- 3. Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when t ...
- 4. I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does ...
- 5. I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain ...
- 6. I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jac ...
- 7. In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
- 8. Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly des ...
- 9. Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language h ...
- 10. Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep ...
- 11. Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly ...
- 12. The ages of seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled th ...
- 13. The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...
- 14. The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
- 15. The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense t ...
- 16. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
- 17. To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the co ...
- 18. What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are ...
- 19. What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person ...
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