Leonard Cohen Quotes

Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Canadian Musician
Born: Sep 21, 1934
Died: Nov 7, 2016
Always Life Me People Sense You
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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen
Light Everything How Crack Gets
This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.' Leonard Cohen
World Reconcile Embrace Reconciled Mess Hallelujah Cannot Conflicts Mean Full Moments Whole Things
At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable. Leonard Cohen
You Challenges You Can Do It Comforting Benefits Financial Faced Point Put Putting Underestimated Most House Cliche Still Order Incalculable Certain Your Certain Point Serious Activities Marbles Levels Chance
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
Myself Rain Waiting Skin Pessimist Think Consider Someone Feel Who
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. Leonard Cohen
Alone Me Man Joke Reputation Nights Spent Laugh Through Caused Ladies
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 Jig Bad About Glass Feet Get Just Little Stamp Really Your Things Raise
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
Word Made Secrets Scar Scars Like Reveal Children Happens Lovers Them Flesh Use Show Medals
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
Dog Daughter Back Come Like Understand Process Really Such A Thing Reincarnation Thing
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 Depression Anxiety Speak Sense Nothing Background Pleasure Collapse Entire Entire Life Anguish Well Clinical Goes Your Strategies
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. Leonard Cohen
World Sense Sleeping Superiority Refuge Last
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
Work Me People Song Work Hard World Value Hunger Out High Having Write Nails Dodging Yeah Bullets Very Dungeons Any Famine Where Place Hard Compared Pulled
Success is survival. Leonard Cohen
Success Survival Success Is
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Leonard Cohen
Life Evidence Poetry Well Just Burning Your
I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang. Leonard Cohen
Life Motorcycle You Easier Kind Civilian Road Feel Like Lot Than Gang
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. Leonard Cohen
Dreams Constitution People Nation Every Perceived Given Beyond Covenant Condition Itself Sovereign Land Sweetest Guarantee
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 People Joy Sadness Closed Down Always Lots Close Times Just Experiencing Regroup
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. Leonard Cohen
Great Mind Half Took Able Simplify Environment Make Because Always Were Very Room Cluttered Pains
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. Leonard Cohen
Work Time You Grace Discouraged Way Out Some Something Mysterious Animate Invites Most Process Again Elaborate Stands Now
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. Leonard Cohen
Time You Yourself Sense Thinking About Repose Stop Certain
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. Leonard Cohen
Prayer Man Language Translation He Mastered Himself Child Asking Barely
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. Leonard Cohen
Pay Write Want Wanted Paid
I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don't write the songs anyhow. So if you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this. Leonard Cohen
You Healthy Own Think Responsive More Write Songs Vehicle Over Knows Years Very Than Intentions Anyhow Dylan Little Bob Bob Dylan Us Your Lucky Keep
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group. Leonard Cohen
Myself Singing Jazz Group Chanting Lyrics Poetry Never Liked Read Readings Really
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. Leonard Cohen
Rest Out One Or Two Thousands Poets Sacred Like Look Known Around Genuine Real Trying Hanging Maybe Real Thing Want Who Thing Two
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. Leonard Cohen
You Think Write Road Stability Certain Novels Need
I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot. Leonard Cohen
Sense Never Had Retirement End
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