576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Sail on, sail on, o' might Ship of State. To the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. Sail on, sail on, sail on.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.