576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

I 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 song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.