The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.
Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
I always make a distinction between nostalgia and sentimentality. Nostalgia is genuine - you mourn things that actually happened.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
I'm terribly nostalgic, but I'm with the Elizabethans who thought nostalgia was a disease. It's a dangerous place to be because you can get caught up in it.
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
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