576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.

Never make a decision when you need to pee

I am this thing that needs to sing.

Take the only tree that's leftAnd stuff it up the holeIn your culture

I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I’m oldTo greet the sickness And the coldI pray for courage In the nightTo bear the burden Make it lightI pray for courageIn the timeWhen suffering comes and Starts to climbI pray for courageAt the endTo see death coming As a friend

To a Young NunThis undemanding love that our staggered births have purchased for us — You in your generation, I in mine. I am not the one you are looking for. You are not the one I've stopped looking for. How sweetly time disposes of us as we go arm in arm over the Bridge of Details: Your turn to chop. My turn to cook. Your turn to die for love. My turn to resurrect.

It looks like freedom but it feels like death, it's something in between I guess. It's closing time.