576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

In Montreal spring is like an autopsy. Everyone wants to see the inside of the frozen mammoth. Girls rip off their sleeves and the flesh is sweet and white, like wood under green bark. From the streets a sexual manifesto rises like an inflating tire, “the winter has not killed us again!

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love..

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep