" The two will preserve their love young and sound, she also will have triumphed over her pains, even though she does not, as it is said in the ballad, « lie every night beside her lord. » These two will to all eternity remain in agreement with one another, with a well-timed harmonia praestabilita, so that if ever the moment were to come, the moment which does not, however, concern them finitely (for then they would be growing older), if ever the moment were to come which offered to give love its expression in time, then they will be capable of beginning precisely at the point where they would have begun if originally they had been united. He "

― Søren Kierkegaard , Fear and Trembling