“It doesn't matter how anything happens.”
Source: The Favourite Game
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Famous Leonard Cohen Quotes
“Your body will never be familiar.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.”
Source: The Favourite Game
Source: The Favourite Game
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.”
“Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this”
Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel
“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
Source: Book of Longing
“You go your way I'll go your way too”
Source: Book of Longing
Source: Beautiful Losers
Source: Beautiful Losers
“I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!”
Source: The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition
Source: Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor
“She was made of flesh and eyelashes.”
Source: The Favourite Game
“He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”
Source: The Favorite Game: A Novel
Source: Book of Longing
“Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.”
“Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.”
Source: Book of Mercy
Source: Atras Das Linhas Inimigas De Meu Amor
“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.”
“If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts”
Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
“I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love.”
Source: Book of Mercy
“Games are nature's most beautiful creation”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“..you wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“Do not be a magician - be magic!”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill So my body leaves no scar On you and never will”