576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

I’ve seen the future and it’s murder.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it’s not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

I don’t remember lighting this cigarette and I don’t remember if I’m here alone or waiting for someone.

Love is not a victory march.

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love’s unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

Only one thing made him happy and now that it was gone everything made him happy.

I didn’t want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory.

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn’t write What the night pencilled in.