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Leonard Cohen Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“I've seen the nations rise and fall, I've heard their stories, heard them all; but love's the only engine of survival.”
— Leonard Cohen, The Future
Tagged: Politics, Song Lyrics, Love
“It's four in the morning, the end of December
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
New York is cold, but I like where I'm living
There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening.”
— Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat
Tagged: Song Lyrics, New York City, Letters
“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”
— Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968
Tagged: Hope, Light, broken
“Ah, you hate to see another tired man
Lay down his hand like he was giving up the holy game of poker
And while he talks his dreams to sleep you notice there's a highway
That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder
It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder”
— Leonard Cohen, The Stranger Song
Tagged: Wanderlust, Leaving, Fear Of Commitment, Poetry, Song Lyrics
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes”
— Leonard Cohen, Everybody Knows
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Cynicism, Sad Lyrics
“Field Commander Cohen, he was our most important spy.
Wounded in the line of duty,
parachuting acid into diplomatic cocktail parties,
urging Fidel Castro to abandon fields and castles.
Leave it all and like a man,
come back to nothing special,
such as waiting rooms and ticket lines.”
— Leonard Cohen, Field Commander Cohen
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Spies
“I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were talking so brave and so sweet
Giving me head on the unmade bed
While the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York, we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song, probably still is for those of them left.”
— Leonard Cohen, Chelsea Hotel #2
Tagged: Song Lyrics, New York City, Nostalgia, Musicians
“An Eskimo showed me a movie he'd recently taken of you. 
The poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue.
I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes, and I guess he just never got warm.
But you stand there so nice in your blizzard of ice, oh please let me come into the storm.”
— Leonard Cohen, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Love Songs, Longing, Obsession
“She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On our lady of the harbor
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror.”
— Leonard Cohen, Suzanne
Tagged: Song Lyrics, Love, Perspective
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