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

Leonard Cohen Quotes

Canadian - Musician September 21, 1934 - November 7, 2016

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen

Light, Everything, Crack

I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang. Leonard Cohen

Life, Road, Motorcycle

This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.' Leonard Cohen

World, Moments, Mean

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. Leonard Cohen

Life, Depression, Anxiety

Music is the emotional life of most people. - Leonard Cohen

Music is the emotional life of most people. Leonard Cohen

Life, Music, People

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

Life, Poetry, Well

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

Children, Secrets, Lovers

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

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

I Am, Older, Show

I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever. Leonard Cohen

Live, Always, Forever

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup. Leonard Cohen

Life, Joy, Sadness

I was born in a suit. Leonard Cohen

Born, Suit, I Was Born

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. Leonard Cohen

Myself, Small, Try

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. - Leonard Cohen

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. Leonard Cohen

Good, Go, Where

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do. Leonard Cohen

Feet, You, Glass

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. Leonard Cohen

Faith, Compassion, Justice

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process. Leonard Cohen

Work, Time, Grace

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone. Leonard Cohen

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. Leonard Cohen

Dreams, Constitution, People

There were times that I thought I was good looking. Leonard Cohen

Good, Thought, Looking

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

Myself, Rain, Waiting

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. Leonard Cohen

Work, Man, Poetry

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. Leonard Cohen

Daughter, Dog, Process

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now. Leonard Cohen

Life, Work, I Am

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

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

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

Time, Yourself, Thinking

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. Leonard Cohen

Love, Life, Live

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