576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen


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    The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

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    Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

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    Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.

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    Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

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    The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.

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