Regarding faith, Leonard Cohen said, "I know there's an eye that’s watching us all." (Uh, he certainly didn't mean just any Polyphemus...)

He also said other emblematic phrases like:

“There is no cure for love, but it is the only medicine for all ills.”

“I don’t consider myself a pessimist; I think a pessimist is someone who expects it to rain, whereas I already feel soaked to the bone.”

#chiaroscuro from "Bird on the wire":
Like a bird on a wire
Like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.

Leonard Norman Cohen, at 82, already suffering for a long time from acute myeloblastic leukemia and heart problems, fell one night down the stairs of his home, resulting in an internal hemorrhage that complicated his health and led him to the afterlife and nothing...