8 Leonard Cohen Quotes on Life

Leonard Cohen quotes on life

7. I am so often accused of gloominess and melancholy. And I think I'm probably the most cheerful man around. I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin. ... I think those descriptions of me are quite inappropriate to the gravity of the predicament that faces us all. I've always been free from hope. It's never been one of my great solaces. I feel that more and more we're invited to make ourselves strong and cheerful. .... I think that it was Ben Jonson who said, I have studied all the theologies and all the philosophies, but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

14. And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.

21. Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.

42. And here you are hurried, And here you are gone; And here is the love, That it's all built upon.

44. May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.

51. I fought against the bottle but I had to do it drunk

60. We taught him how to dress, and he taught us how to live, forever.

61. What if I had to Live here without you Oh, I don't really want to know Where you goin', Lenny Cohen?