Leonard Cohen Quotes - BrainyQuote

Canadian - Musician September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016

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.

Life Motorcycle You Road

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.'

World Moments Things Mess

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

Children Secrets Scars Like

There were times that I thought I was good looking.

Good Looking Thought Good Looking

I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Yourself Poetry Thought Writing

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.

Rain Myself Waiting Think

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Life Music People Emotional Most

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

Love Woman Watches Battle

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

You Way Like Act

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.

Life Love You Live

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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?

Work Me Work Hard People

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.

Great Mind Always Environment

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.

Faith Justice Compassion True

I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion.

Good Family People Deep

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.

Life People Sadness Down

I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

End Never Retirement Sense

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Tradition Worship Well Affirmation

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.

Work Time You Grace

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity.

Work Political Only Activity

I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished.

Always Away Songs Number

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

Light Everything How Crack Gets

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

Yourself Time You Thinking

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

Life Poetry Your Just

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.

Challenges You You Can Do It Chance

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.

You Feet Bad Your

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

Myself Small Always Try

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