The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I smile when I'm angry , I cheat and I lie. I do what I have to do to get by. But… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. Leonard Cohen — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I didn't kill myself when things went wrong I didn't turn to drugs or teaching I tried to sleep but when I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Don't matter if you're rich and strong Don't matter if you're weak Don't matter if you write a song The nightingales repeat Don't matter… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible. I've seen the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“This is it I’m not coming after you I’m going to lie down for half an hour This is it I’m not going down… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
