“Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
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Famous Leonard Cohen Quotes
“We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.”
Source: Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.”
“Here is your cross, Your nails and your hill; And here is your love, That lists where it will”
“May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.”
Source: Book of Longing
“What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.”
Source: The Favourite Game
Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel
“I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.”
“And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.”
“I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.”
“My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca.”
“When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.”
“History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep.”
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.”
“Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed.”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
“A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.”
“The troubles came and I saved what I could save. A thread of light, a particle, a wave.”