Leonard Cohen Quotes Page 2

“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”

“Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.”

“First of all nothing will happen
and a little later
nothing will happen again”

“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”

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”

“You go your way.
I'll go your way too.”

“My friends are gone and my hair is grey.
I ache in places I used to play.
And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on.
I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.”

“Don't call yourself a secret
unless you mean to keep it.”

“There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.”

“A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.”

“Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.”

“As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder. ”

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

“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”

“He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.”

“I'm planning a catastrophe.”