Leonard Cohen quotes

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. (Leonard Cohen)
I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Never make a decision when you need to pee. View quote
Leonard Cohen
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. View quote
Leonard Cohen
There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in. View quote
Leonard Cohen
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I smile when I'm angry, I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right, and I'd die for the truth in my secret life. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!! View quote
Leonard Cohen
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. (Leonard Cohen)
I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows. View quote
Leonard Cohen
It's you my love, you who are the stranger. View quote
Leonard Cohen
It's true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Like any dealer he was watching for the card that is so high and wild he'll never need to deal another. He was just some Joseph looking for a manger. View quote
Leonard Cohen
You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I've seen the future and it's murder. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'. (Leonard Cohen)
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show. View quote
Leonard Cohen
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree. View quote
Leonard Cohen
Deprivation is the mother of poetry. View quote
Leonard Cohen
She was made of flesh and eyelashes. View quote
Leonard Cohen