Leonard Cohen

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

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

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

“Success is survival.”

“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.”

“The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”

“A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.”

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.”

“Love is not a victory march. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.”

“Music is the emotional life of most people.”

“We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made weighty.”

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin.”

“There's a blaze of light in every word; it doesn't matter which you heard, the holy or the broken Hallelujah.”

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

“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.”