“He let me be a student of a love that I will never be able to give.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“I saw you watching the moon you did note hesitate to love me with it I saw you honouring the wind-flowers caught… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The old are kind The young are hot Love may be blind Desire is not” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery... — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“what is the expression which the age demands? the age demands no expression whatever. we have seen photographs of bereaved asian mothers.… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“You have the lovers, they are nameless, their histories only for each other, and you have the room, the bed, and the… — 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
