576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.