Leonard Cohen Quotations | Page 4

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.

Love is the only engine of survival

It’s a depressing habit you have of loving to sneeze and of eating apples as if they were juicier for you and being the first one to exclaim how good the movie is. You depress people. We like apples too.

If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.