You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things apply, As time goes by.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the enduring significance of simple expressions of affection, like a kiss, despite the passage of time.
Herman Hupfeld's quote reveals that certain fundamental elements of love and human connection remain constant, even as time changes circumstances. The timelessness of a kiss and a sigh symbolizes the deep emotional ties that accompany these actions, suggesting that love's essence persists amid the inevitable changes of life.
In practice
During a wedding toast to remind everyone of the timeless nature of love.
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.
He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds _x000D_ _x000D_ Admit impediments: love is not love _x000D_ _x000D_ Which alters when it alteration finds.
Go on loving what is good, simple, and ordinary.
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
The first problem, of course, is that we haven't learned to love ourselves. That's the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can't give it over there.
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