576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

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

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love...

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

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.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.