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.
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.
Journeys end in lovers meeting; I have spent an all but sleepless night, I have told lies and made a fool of myself, and the very air tastes like wine. I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long.
The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.
Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.