4 April 2014

saudade

Saudade (singular) or saudades (plural)
(in Galician, in European Portuguese [saw’dad] and [sawˈdadʒi] or [sawˈdadi] in Brazilian Portuguese)

– a feeling of nostalgic longing for something or someone that one was fond of and which is lost.
It often carries a fatalist tone and a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might really never return.

‘He was overcome with saudade’.

(Galician and Portuguese word)

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A sad due
as a dude

Today’s quote

‘When I explained to someone that what I wanted to write about was the memory of things that I thought were lost for me, I was told that the Portuguese word for this feeling was “saudade”. It’s not nostalgia but something sadder’.

– Nick Cave

On this day

4 April 1968 – assassination of Martin Luther King. American civil rights activist and clergyman. Born 15 January 1929.