576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.

If I spelled out the Principles of FaithI would be barking on the moon.

I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

The RemoteI often think about youwhen I’m lying alone inmy room with my mouthopen and the remotelost somewhere in the bed.

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

I write to murder the selves that whisper untruths to me.

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreedIt's stupid to be a man