576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it’s overturned the order of the soul...

I’m writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I’m not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I’m not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you.

And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

It’s the notion that there is no perfection – that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time.

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

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm.