576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Pay attention to the cracks, because that’s where the light gets in.

Do not be a magician – be magic!

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I’ve practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Blessed is your name. Blessed is the confession of your name.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That’s what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Don’t call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren’t going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire.