Leonard Cohen Quotes - Page 7

• I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Eye, Government

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.221, Omnibus Press

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• Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

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  Silence, Cricket, Deeper

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.34, Random House

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• We are ugly but we have the music.

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  Feo

  FaceBook post by Leonard Cohen from Jun 01, 2009

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• Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

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  Gratitude, Morning, Couple

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.157, McClelland & Stewart

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• I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Art, Reality

  "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

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• ... 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

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  Falling In Love, Up To You, Passing

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.148, McClelland & Stewart

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• The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

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  Art, Media, Entertainment

  Song: Death Of A Ladies' Man, Album: Death of a Ladies' Man, 1977

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• Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

  Leonard Cohen

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

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• Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

  Leonard Cohen

  Pozos

  Song: You Know Who I Am, Album: Live Songs, 1969

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• He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.

  Leonard Cohen

  Heart, Men, Monsters

  "Beautiful Losers". Libro de Leonard Cohen, 1966.

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• It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

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  Night, Light, Broken

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• Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

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  Bebé, Niños, Guerra

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• Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

  Leonard Cohen

  Together, Quiet

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.25, Emblem Editions

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• It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

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  Morning, Writing, Four

  Song: Famous Blue Raincoat, 1971

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• Like any dealer he was watching for the card
  that is so high and wild
  he'll never need to deal another.
  He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.

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  Philosophical, Needs, Cards

  "Song: 'The Stranger Song'". 1967.

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• Antes tocábamos música por diversión. Mucho más que ahora. Ahora nadie coge una guitarra si no le pagan por ello.

  Leonard Cohen

  Fun, Guitar, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Esta es la actividad más desafiante en la que se meten los humanos, que es el amor. Tenemos la sensación de que no podemos vivir sin amor. Que la vida tiene muy poco sentido sin amor.

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  Love You, Challenges, Littles

  "'I'm blessed with a certain amnesia'". Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2009.

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• El término depresión clínica se cuela en demasiadas conversaciones hoy en día. Uno tiene la sensación de que se ha producido una catástrofe en el paisaje psíquico.

  Leonard Cohen

  Depresión, Deprimente, Psíquicos

  The International Herald Tribune, 4 de noviembre de 1988.

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• I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

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  Tree, Arms, Lilac

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.75, Vintage

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• Los pájaros que cantaban al amanecer. ¡Comienza de nuevo! Les oí decir

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  Pájaro, Romper, Oído

  Canción: Anthem, Álbum: The Future, 1992

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• I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

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  Song, Rock And Roll, Done

  Song: Bird On The Wire, 1969

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• Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

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  Makeup, Years, Doe

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• And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

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  Corazón, Hombres, Personas

  "'I'm blessed with a certain amnesia'". Interview with Jian Ghomeshi, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2009.

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• The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

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  Prosperity, Rich, Poor

  Song: Everybody Knows, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

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• If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

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  Song, Catholic, Mysterious

  Leonard Cohen (2014). “Leonard Cohen on Leonard Cohen”, p.348, Omnibus Press

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