Leonard Cohen Quotes

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go to your mother, who thinks she is alive. That's my impression. But now I shall have to get myself out of this ditch. How joyfully I would vanish here, sinking deeper and deeper under the rains.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

Eventually, it wasn't even your dad I wanted, just anybody. Anybody at all.

Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.