576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they’re paid for it.

Take one step to the side and it’s all absurd.

I don’t trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios...

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate.

I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face –.

I remember what Ben Jonson said: ‘I’ve studied all the philosophies and all the theologies but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.

Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care.