Leonard Cohen Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Men, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Hangover, Heart

  "Depression and Depression: Paul Krugman, Leonard Cohen and St. Paul" by Christopher Cocca, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

• Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or whatever - the discomfort is so intense. Maybe it's always been like that, certainly it is now.

  Leonard Cohen

  People, Fascination, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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