Leonard Cohen Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.”

“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

“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 well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.”

“Music is the emotional life of most people.”

“Success is survival.”

“We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?”

“I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.”