576 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

I don't rememberlighting this cigaretteand I don't rememberif I'm here aloneor waiting for someone.

No sospeché la insignificancia de mi sueño. Creí haber concebido el sueño más vasto de mi generación: quse ser mago. Ésa era mi idea de la gloria. He aquí una súplica basada en toda mi experiencia: no seas mago, sé mágico.

That paragraph. It’s not the work of an author, but maybe five lines. It’s those five lines that will get me reluctantly to explore the rest of the guy’s work. But that paragraph I’ve never forgotten. There’s that paragraph ‘Snow was general all over Ireland.’ It described the snow. It’s Montreal. It’s our snow, our black iron gates in Montreal. It was perfect.

Así como un ave en su jaula.Así como un bebedor entre el bullicio de la medianoche,así he intentado ser libre, a mi manera.

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

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

I'm just waiting for the miracle to come

So I must say it quickly;Whoever is in your life,those that harm you,those that help you;those whom you knowand those whom you do not know --let them off the hook,help them off the hook.Recognize the hook.You are listening to radio resistance.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.