Love Quotes by Leonard Cohen

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

— Leonard Cohen

Love is not a victory march

— Leonard Cohen

No one masters the heart.

— Leonard Cohen

Get ready for the future: it is murder.

— Leonard Cohen

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

— Leonard Cohen

Love is the only engine of survival

— Leonard Cohen

I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.

— Leonard Cohen

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

— Leonard Cohen

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

— Leonard Cohen

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

— Leonard Cohen

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.

— Leonard Cohen

“He let me be a student of a love that I will never be able to give.”

— Leonard Cohen

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

— Leonard Cohen

May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.

— Leonard Cohen

“The old are kind The young are hot Love may be blind Desire is not”

— Leonard Cohen

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love

— Leonard Cohen

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful…

— Leonard Cohen

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i…

— Leonard Cohen

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you…

— Leonard Cohen

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

— Leonard Cohen

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...

— Leonard Cohen

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear…

— Leonard Cohen

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer…

— Leonard Cohen

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

— Leonard Cohen

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries…

— Leonard Cohen

Part of the shabbiness of our culture, if indeed it is shabby, is that it doesn't seem to prepare people. With all…

— Leonard Cohen

I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong…

— Leonard Cohen

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each…

— Leonard Cohen

Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone…

— Leonard Cohen

In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the…

— Leonard Cohen

“Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night…

— Leonard Cohen

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask.…

— Leonard Cohen

“what is the expression which the age demands? the age demands no expression whatever. we have seen photographs of bereaved asian mothers.…

— Leonard Cohen

“The flowers that I left in the ground, that I did not gather for you, today I bring them all back, to…

— Leonard Cohen

“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we…

— Leonard Cohen

“You have the lovers, they are nameless, their histories only for each other, and you have the room, the bed, and the…

— Leonard Cohen

“THIS ISN’T CHINA Hold me close and tell me what the world is like I don’t want to look outside I want…

— Leonard Cohen

I've seen the future and it's murder.

— Leonard Cohen

The winter has not killed usagain!

— Leonard Cohen

Rust rust rust in the engines of love and time.

— Leonard Cohen