Leonard Cohen Night Quotations

My heart sings of your longing for me, and my thoughts climb down to marvel at your mercy. I do not fear as you gather up my days. Your name is the sweetness of time, and you carry me close into the night, speaking consolations, drawing down lights from the sky, saying, See how the night has no terrors for one who remembers the name.

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear

It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.

I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen.

Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.

And sometimes when the night is slow The wretched and the meek We gather up our hearts and go A Thousand Kisses Deep.

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