10 of Leonard Cohen's best quotes
The late singer, songwriter Leonard Cohen - whose work spanned nearly five decades - has made notable contributions to the music industry since the 1960s.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, his son Adam said: "My father passed away peacefully at his home in Los Angeles with the knowledge that he had completed what he felt was one of his greatest records."
Referred to as Canada's foremost writers, Cohen became a critical favourite with songs such as "So Long, Marianne" and "Suzanne." and 1984 hit "Hallelujah".
Here's a list of some of the best quotes from his work.
"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."
"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash."
"I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin."
"The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
"I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face."
"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."
"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act."
"In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress."
"What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love."