576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do.

It’s not a cry you can hear at night. It’s not somebody who has seen the light. It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.

We’re always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who’ve closed down. And there are times in one’s life when one has to close down just to regroup.

It’s time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned.

I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you, I’m glad you stood in my way.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he’s written poetry then let the verdict be that he’s a poet.

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving ’cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

The wretched beast is tame I don’t need a lover So blow out the flame...