576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But I know what is wrong and I know what is right , and I'd die for the truth in my secret life .

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.