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100 Motivational Quotes By Leonard Cohen That Will Help You Look At The Brighter Side Of Life

Famous As: One of the Most Accomplished Canadian Folk-Rock Singer-Songwriters of His Generation
Born On: September 21, 1934
Died On: November 7, 2016
Born In: Westmount, Canada
Died At Age: 82

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Leonard Cohen is Canada’s gem – he is definitely one of the most loved Canadian singers, songwriters, poets and novelists that the world takes pride in. Bestowed with the nations’ highest honour, Companion of the Order of Canada, Leonard Cohen is a fascinating and enigmatic singer-songwriter from the 1960s who commands the attention of the critics and the aspiring musician even at the 21st century while making music. His music is deeply poetic and inspirational and manages to retain the attention of the audience, despite his four decades of music making career. For his remarkable talent and impeccable style, Cohen has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cohen’s career in art has witnessed him pursue multiple art forms in a short span. He started off as a writer, novelist and poet spinning out classics before pursuing music. Most of his work explores religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. The same can also be seen in his quotes that give readers a new perspective to life. Check this section and find some of the best quotes by Leonard Cohen.

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.

Leonard Cohen
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leonard Cohen
How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

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

Leonard Cohen
I don't remember
lighting this cigarette
and I don't remember
if I'm here alone
or waiting for someone.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

Leonard Cohen
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.

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.

Leonard Cohen
Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Never make a decision when you need to pee.

Leonard Cohen
Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

Leonard Cohen
You go your way
I'll go your way too

You go your way I'll go your way too

Leonard Cohen
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Leonard Cohen
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Leonard Cohen
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin 
Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in 
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove 
Dance me to the end of love

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Leonard Cohen
... i didn't fall in love of course
it's never up to you
but she was walking back and forth
and i was passing through

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

Leonard Cohen
First of all nothing will happen 
and a little later
nothing will happen again

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again

Leonard Cohen
I have tried in my way to be free.

I have tried in my way to be free.

Leonard Cohen
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.

Leonard Cohen
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.

Leonard Cohen
The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.

Leonard Cohen
Don't call yourself a secret 
unless you mean to keep it.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

Leonard Cohen
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

Leonard Cohen
I have often prayed for you 
like this 
Let me have her

I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her

Leonard Cohen
It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

It doesn't matter what you do because it's going to happen anyway.

Leonard Cohen
I'm planning a catastrophe.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

Leonard Cohen
Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was,

Remember when I moved in you and the holy dove was moving too, and every breath we drew was, "Hallelujah.

Leonard Cohen
A kite is a victim you are sure of.
you love it because it pulls.

A kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

Leonard Cohen
A heavy burden lifted from my soul,
I heard that love was out of my control.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

Leonard Cohen
Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

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

Leonard Cohen