576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn’t understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

I’ve always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will.

He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.

I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

What I loved in my old life – I haven’t forgotten – it lives in my spine.

We did no train ourselves to receive, because we believed there wasn’t anything to receive and we could not endure with this belief.

It doesn’t matter what you do because it’s going to happen anyway.