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?”
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― Back to Methuselah
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