Facts about Leonard Cohen

Occup.	Musician
From	Canada
Born	September 21, 1934
Age	90 years

Summary

Leonard Cohen is a famous Musician from Canada, he/she is 90 years old and still alive, born September 21, 1934.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 14 quotes who is written / told by Leonard, under the main topic Poetry.

Related authors: Jeff Buckley (Musician), Phyllis Gotlieb (Novelist)

14 Famous quotes by Leonard Cohen

"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

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

Leonard Cohen

"The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape"

Leonard Cohen

"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face"

Leonard Cohen

"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

"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity"

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"

Leonard Cohen

"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered"

Leonard Cohen

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

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

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

Leonard Cohen

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

Leonard Cohen

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

Leonard Cohen

"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress"

Leonard Cohen