duality of love Quotes

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none.

Love can make us fiends as well as angels.

It took two," I said. "Two different people to make the Heartwood what it is. Two different experiences, grief and joy, combined. True love never has just one face, does it? It must always have two, or it isn't true love at all.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

You must know that I do not love and that I love you, because everything alive has its two sides; a word is one wing of silence, fire has its cold half. I love you in order to begin to love you, to start infinity again and never to stop loving you: that’s why I do not love you yet. I love you, and I do not love you, as if I held keys in my hand: to a future of joy- a wretched, muddled fate- My love has two lives, in order to love you. -Sonnet XLIV

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.