saudade
Description
“i imagine a line, a bright white line, painted on the land and ocean, from me to you.”
Foreword
saudade (european portuguese : [sɐwˈðaðɨ])
- a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves and often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return.
“the feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. all these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― fernando pessoa
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