10 Immortal Leonard Cohen Quotes You Need Right Now

‘The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.’

‘Music is the emotional life of most people.’

‘There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.’

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

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

‘Do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory.’

‘How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me.’

‘She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah.’

‘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.’