Leonard Cohen Quotes

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Love becomes logically true when lost but still sought from the same source.

Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter" - Georgina about

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.

Roses are red, Violets are blue, No amount of money, Can stop me from loving you, Try as they may, Try as they might, I’m not letting go, Without a fight, Some say it’s wicked, Some say it’s sinful, Some it’s wrong, And just wrong, I don’t know much, But when push comes to shove, I definitely don’t believe, There’s such thing wrong as love.

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

Some relationships don't last for a lifetime but we still feel like it is the one that is meant to be.

She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.

Don't fall in love with someone you can live with, fall in love with someone you can't live without.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted

There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

He loved me. He loved me, but he doesn't love me anymore, and it's not the end of the world.

love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you

When you love till it hurts, there will be no hurt left, just love.

Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.

I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.' - Jane Eyre

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

I don't believe you ever stop loving anyone you ever really loved. You have them there like money in the bank just because you loved them and held them in your arms or dreamed you did. You can forget a lot of things in life, but not that honey to end all honeys.