Leonard Cohen Quotes

Love without sacrifice is like theft

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Love is doing something you don't want to do for someone you don't particularly like at that moment.

When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

True love is an act of total surrender.

Lovers never surrender to each other, lovers simply surrender to love.

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Love is sacrifice.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

What you're willing to sacrifice is the measurement of how you love - at least it is for me.

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.