The best Quotes by Leonard Cohen

The best Quotes by Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, and sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.
Music is the emotional life of most people.
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
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The answer to all our mysteries is:
Du Damdamdam
Du Damdam.
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I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Album: Various Positions

Quotes about Leonard Cohen

Canada also helped in two world wars and gave the world Neil Young, William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, Pamela Anderson, one quarter of Barney Stinson, instant mashed potatoes and best of all - you.
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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.
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Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.
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I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.
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Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."
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People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.
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The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.
Whatever you do in this life, it's not legendary, unless your friends are there to see it.
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Barney: "Our wedding is gonna be legendary."
Robin: "No wait for it?"
Barney: "I've got you, I don't have to wait for it anymore."
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Underneath all of those lies is one true thing. One true thing that can support the weight of all the lies in the world, and that's the fact that I love you.
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When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True Story.
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This woman has a hold on my heart that I could not break if I wanted to, and there have been times that I wanted to.
It has been overwhelming and humbling and even painful at times, but I could not stop loving her any more than I could stop breathing.
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It's only once you've stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it.
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If you're looking for the word that means caring for someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want, no matter how much it destroys you, it's love!
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Kids, you can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tight you hold on... it's already gone.
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Success should always be just beyond your grasp.
I never watched Star Trek.
It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
It's better to burn out, than to fade away.
Live music is better.
If watching is all you're going to do, then you're going to watch your life go by without you.
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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
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Nobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.
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You know how sometimes you'll meet a girl and there'll be that one bewitching little detail that'll make you fall in love with her instantly? You know, a little freckle on the nose, the lilt of her laugh, the way she pronounces a certain word or phrase...
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Well, maybe this isn't a breakup. Maybe this is two friends getting back together.
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Marshall: "When a woman puts on an engagement ring, it's like when Bilbo Baggins wears the One Ring in The Hobbit."
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Marshall: "Sure. Uh, the ring is like the cloak that Harry Potter wears to sneak around Hogwarts."
Robin: "Yeah, I don't speak virgin either."
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Marshall: "It's kind of a big, professional meeting. You might want to trade out that lollipop for a shirt."
Ted: "Yeah. I'll just give it to one of these kids."
Marshall: "Oh, buddy. You're half naked, you're not a parent to any of these children. Don't offer 'em candy!"
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When you do one good deed, it creates a ripple effect. One good deed leads to another and another.
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Your heart's talking to you, Barney. Do you have the guts to listen to it?
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Lily: "Just give me his name!"
Robin: "Fine. It's Bill Pepper."
Lily: "Kind of a coincidence there happens to be a bill and a pepper shaker here on the table. Any chance you and Bill had a three-way with Fork Napkin?"
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Quinn: "In the event of divorce, Miss Garvey shall get full custody of Mr. Stinson's suits."
Barney: "Why? What would you do with them?"
Quinn: "Nothing. I'd just sit around and watch them go out of style."
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If we miss Hawaii because of this, guess who's not doing "The Disappearing Salami" anytime soon?
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Ted: "Robin and I already had our backslide. Last Thanksgiving, not even that long ago."
Stella: "Did you place a large bet against yourself?"
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Ted: "We can do it against the door. It will be hot. It will be like a three-way: you, me and the door."
Stella: "Yeah, but then it's going to be weird between me and the door tomorrow."
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Barney: "You avoiding the family too?"
James: "I'm gay, I'm black and I'm getting a divorce. Those walking skeletons are gonna have more questions for me than their pharmacists."
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