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Leonard Cohen Quotes about Rain

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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.

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.

Leonard Cohen
Rain, Optimistic, Reality

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

Leonard Cohen
Love, Rain, Kissing
Song: Recitation

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

Leonard Cohen
Lying, Rain, Complaining
Song: Waiting For The Miracle, Album: The Future, 1992

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

Leonard Cohen
Nature, Rain, Filters
Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.30, McClelland & Stewart

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