The Portuguese have a word for it: saudade – a yearning for a happiness that has passed, or perhaps never existed.


“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
― King Lear
― King Lear

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― Back to Methuselah
― Back to Methuselah

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan

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