Leonard Cohen Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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

  Rain, Optimistic, Reality

• Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Reality, Possibility

• I think what we like about music - and what we like about art in general....is that enterprise that stops our minds from spinning. Because we're always all over the place. A good song, a good lyric is a movie: it will just focus and calm and confer significance on this completely bewildering reality that all of us live in.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Art, Reality

  "Leonard Cohen at 80". Interview with Mark Ellen, www.thetimes.co.uk. September 19, 2014.

• It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

  Leonard Cohen

  Ocean, Heart, Reality

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.125, McClelland & Stewart

• I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.

  Leonard Cohen

  Reality, Thinking, Psychics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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