576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Don’t write about ideas... write about convictions of the heart.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can.

I’m not a very nostalgic person. I don’t really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn’t pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

You’ve got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.

Maybe there’s a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.