Leonard Cohen Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• 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 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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