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Life Quotes by Leonard Cohen
- Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
- 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 when one has…
- I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes…
- I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
- There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
- This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without…
- Love is not a victory march
- If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a…
- If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as…
- In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I…
- You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep
- Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore
- I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.
- If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want…
- I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.
- Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech…
- Music is the emotional life of the most people.
- Music is the emotional life of most people.
- If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. Leonard Cohen
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle