Duane Michals Quotes

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.

I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they'd hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again.

Love is very complicated and it's never black and white, as I'm sure we all know in our lives.

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

If you have to think about whether you love someone or not then the answer is no. When you love someone you just know.

If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths.

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

I love you more than my own skin.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral.

Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

If someone explains me the definition of love, I will give my life to the person. Love is a thing which is difficult to understand. Love is always evolving.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.