Desire Quote by Leonard Cohen

“We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human…” quote by Leonard Cohen — Download Open image

“We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.”

Leonard Cohen

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Desire Frivolity Greed Hands Heart High prices Human heart Humans Ifs Involved Materials Pay Sacred Serious Temper Tragedy

More by Leonard Cohen

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

Leonard Cohen

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

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

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 On your memory I’m not rubbing my face in it anymore I’m going to yawn I’m going to stretch I’m going to put a knitting needle Up my nose And poke out my brain I don’t…

Leonard Cohen

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

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

Image

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

Leonard Cohen

Image

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

Leonard Cohen

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

Image

“Blessed are you, embrace of the falling, foundation of the light, master of the human accident.”

Leonard Cohen

Image

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

Leonard Cohen

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

Image

Explore all 543 Leonard Cohen quotes

More Desire quotes

I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

Ted Martinez

Image

Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.

David Easton

Image

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is…

John Burns

Image

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

John Armstrong

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Jean Rostand

Image

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Image

He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and…

Victor Hugo

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not…

John Steinbeck

Image

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

John Dewey

Image

In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

Betsy Lerner