Leonard Cohen Quotes

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

My gratitude is great to my family and friends for accepting me as the person who they now know me to be and for letting me show them the possibilities of a life well lived.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

Nothing is more important to me than my family, my faith, and my friends.

Isolation must precede true society.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

If you don't have your friends and your family, what do you really have? You can have all the money in the world, but with no friends and no family, it's no good.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don't know what I'd do without them.