It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

The line asserts a sweeping, gendered generalization: men experience love as a passing “mood,” while women experience it as an existential stake—“life or death.” Read as a product of late‑19th/early‑20th‑century sentimental and moral discourse, it reflects cultural expectations that women’s social security and identity were more tightly bound to romantic attachment and marriage, whereas men were presumed freer to treat love as episodic. The rhetoric (“since time began…till time lose breath”) universalizes what may be a historically contingent social arrangement, inviting modern readers either to critique its essentialism or to see it as a pointed commentary on unequal emotional and social consequences.