Saudade is an emotional state of conspicuous melancholic or profoundly nostalgic longing for something or someone that one cares for, loves, not necessarily real. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing may never be had again or attained. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events, often illusive that once are thought to have somehow brought excitement, pleasure, or well-being, but now trigger the senses in a way one experience pain of separation from the perceived joyous sensations.