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Leonard Cohen (Writer)

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

— Leonard Cohen light

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.

— Leonard Cohen faith

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

— Leonard Cohen time

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

— Leonard Cohen life

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

— Leonard Cohen secrets

Success is survival.

— Leonard Cohen survival

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.

— Leonard Cohen life

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

— Leonard Cohen self

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

— Leonard Cohen you

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?

— Leonard Cohen people

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.

— Leonard Cohen real

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

— Leonard Cohen world

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

— Leonard Cohen you

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

— Leonard Cohen language

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. That life has very little meaning without love.

— Leonard Cohen love

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

— Leonard Cohen running

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 to close down just to regroup.

— Leonard Cohen life

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

— Leonard Cohen you

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

— Leonard Cohen love

Music is the emotional life of most people.

— Leonard Cohen life

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen write

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

— Leonard Cohen life

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca.

— Leonard Cohen hero

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

— Leonard Cohen novel

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

— Leonard Cohen good

Act the way youd like to be and soon youll be the way you act.

— Leonard Cohen you

There is a crack in everything, thats how the light gets in.

— Leonard Cohen light

There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in

— Leonard Cohen light

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

— Leonard Cohen wit

I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because were always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

— Leonard Cohen art

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