576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

You go your way I'll go your way too

Love is not a victory march

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song.

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It’s for others; it’s for others to use.

I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don’t matter how it all went wrong That don’t change the way I feel And I can’t believe that time’s Gonna heal this wound I’m speaking of There ain’t no cure for love.

All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them.

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.

The art of longing’s over, and it’s never coming back.