Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. L
  4. Leonard Cohen
  5. Love

Leonard Cohen Quotes about Love

All Leonard Cohen Quotes Art Beach Chaos Children Culture Depression Feelings Giving Gratitude Greed Hate Heart Hills Inspiration Kissing Life Loneliness Love quotes Lying Magic Mercy Moon Morning Music My Way Pain Passion Past Pleasure Poetry Rain Reality Responsibility Running Sexuality Silence Singing Sleep Songwriting Soul Strategy Suffering Today Vision Waiting War Winning Writing
Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

Leonard Cohen
Love, Singing, Thee

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
Love, Children, Heart
Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.10, Emblem Editions

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

Leonard Cohen
Love, Rain, Kissing
Song: Recitation

I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don't matter how it all went wrong That don't change the way I feel And I can't believe that time's Gonna heal this wound I'm speaking of There ain't no cure for love

Leonard Cohen
Love, Real, Believe
Song: Ain't No Cure For Love, Album: I'm Your Man, 1988

To the men and women who own men and women those of us meant to be lovers we will not pardon you for wasting our bodies and time

Leonard Cohen
Love, Men, Body

I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

Leonard Cohen
Love, Betrayal, Sleep

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

Leonard Cohen
Love, Goodbye, Morning
"Hey, that's no way to say goodbye". Song by Leonard Cohen, 1967.

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

Leonard Cohen
Love, Battle, Allies
Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.156, Emblem Editions

You May Also Like: