I think that really what our training, what our culture, our religious institutions, our educational and cultural institutions should be about is preparing the heart for that journey outside of the cage of the ribs. — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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
“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
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
I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
“I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share
