"It's not a cry you can hear at……" — Leonard Cohen

"It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah."

— Leonard Cohen

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253 Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen has 253 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain.…
In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.
A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about…
We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out…
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in…
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will…
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is…
I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families… — Gary Bauer
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the… — Simone de Beauvoir
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. — Yogi Berra

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