Best Leonard Cohen Quotes
Leonard Cohen Quotes About Love, Life, Light, Hope, Marriage, Lyrics, Songs, Goodreads, Friendship, Montreal & Success! Leonard Cohen was a Canadian singer-songwriter-novelist well known for his songs and writings in both the literary and musical fields. He was born on 21st September 1934, in Westmount, Quebec, to a middle-class family. When he was in his thirties, he decided to take up music. In high school, he became curious about poetry and began writing his poems while he was only a kid. In addition to playing the guitar, Cohen had a strong interest in folk music. After meeting a local musician, he was inspired to learn more about guitar and flamenco music.
In addition, he wrote several poems and had them published in publications while pursuing his creative endeavors. A book of poetry titled “The Spice-Box of Earth” soon made him recognizable in the literary community. As a result, he began producing short tales and novels that were well-received by both reviewers and laypeople alike.
Then, he began experimenting with his musical talents and became a singer and songwriter of his own accord. One of his most famous songs, “Hallelujah,” is regarded as one of his most outstanding achievements. Around 200 musicians have recorded this song in various languages, and reputable organizations estimate that this album has sold five million copies. Many movies and television programs have included this song, including the BBC Radio Documentary.
Cohen gave insight into a wide range of topics, including relationships, sexuality, politics, and religion, and wrote songs that were both creative and solidified Cohen’s position in the music industry. But this renowned person didn’t stop writing, and he worked on both writing and music simultaneously, becoming famous in all of them.
Best Leonard Cohen Quotes
1.”Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”-Leonard Cohen
2.“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love.”-Leonard Cohen
3.”Music is the emotional life of most people.”-Leonard Cohen
4.”Here’s to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don’t even care”-Leonard Cohen
5.”If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”-Leonard Cohen
6.”The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”-Leonard Cohen
7.”As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. “-Leonard Cohen
8.”The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”-Leonard Cohen
9.”It’s hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender”-Leonard Cohen
10.”A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls.”-Leonard Cohen
11.”Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, ‘Hallelujah’.”-Leonard Cohen
12.”He knew that hair couldn’t feel; he kissed her hair.”-Leonard Cohen
13.”There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t.”-Leonard Cohen
14.”When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned. “-Leonard Cohen
15.”Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.”-Leonard Cohen
16. “You know, we have the sense that we cannot live without love, that life has very little meaning without it.”-Leonard Cohen
17.”Never close your eyes and jerk your head to one side when you talk about death.”-Leonard Cohen
18.”It doesn’t matter what you do because it’s going to happen anyway.”-Leonard Cohen
19.”Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.”-Leonard Cohen
20.”We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”-Leonard Cohen
21.”Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love”-Leonard Cohen
22.”Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic ’til I’m gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love. “-Leonard Cohen
23.“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.”-Leonard Cohen
24.”… I didn’t fall in love of course
it’s never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and I was passing through”-Leonard Cohen
25.”Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.”-Leonard Cohen
26.”A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.”
27.”She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”-Leonard Cohen
28.”I’m planning a catastrophe.”
29.”Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”-Leonard Cohen
30.“I think marriage is the hottest furnace of the spirit today. Much more difficult than solitude, much more challenging for people who want to work on themselves.”-Leonard Cohen
