576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.

The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed, It would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed, It’s like our visit to the moon or to that other star, I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

As he died to make men holy, let us die to make things cheap.

I don’t know which side is anybody on any more. I don’t really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we’re on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

Everybody knows that you’ve been faithful, give or take a night or two.

I don’t think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah.

It’s true that all the men you knew were dealers who said they were through with dealing Every time you gave them shelter. I know that kind of man It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender.