Leonard Cohen Quotes

17 quotes

Canadian singer, songwriter and poet (1934–2016)

“Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in.”

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

on Life

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

on Hope

"It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple"

on Truth

"Who could have foretoldthe heart grows oldfrom touching others"

on Love

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

on Creativity

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

on Love

"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."

on Truth

"Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word."

on Faith

"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."

on Art

"Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say."

on Wisdom

"There is a crack in everything"

on Hope

"Music is the emotional life of most people."

on Art

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

on Hope

"Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore"

on Philosophy

"Success is survival."

on Success

"Ah, grief makes us precise!"

on Grief