30 phrases of longing poems to remember someone remarkable

Miss you, only Portuguese can feel them well, because they have that word to say they have them.

Fernando Pessoa

We miss certain moments of our life and certain moments of people who passed through it.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Time does not stop! Only nostalgia is what makes things stop in time.

Mario Quintana

There is no more painful longing than for the things that never were.

Fernando Pessoa

And speaking of homesickness, where are you?

Vinicius de Moraes

I hope sadness convinces you that longing doesn’t pay off and that absence doesn’t give peace.

Vinicius de Moraes

When I think of you, I close my eyes missing you. I’ve had a lot but happiness.

Cecília Meireles

It’s that nostalgia makes you live, and makes you hear, and still see, everything that was and will end.

Fernando Pessoa

We also miss what didn’t exist, and it hurts a lot.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

What are days made of? Of small desires, slow longings, silent memories.

Cecília Meireles

The longing that hurts most deeply and irrevocably is the longing we have for ourselves.

Mario Quintana

How much I loved or stopped loving, it’s the same longing in me.

Fernando Pessoa

Moving on is simple, it’s what we leave behind that’s hard.

Clarice Lispector

Longing is not knowing, not knowing what to do with the days that have gotten longer or how to overcome the pain of a silence that nothing fills.

Martha Medeiros

It was nothing. I missed it, that’s all. Suddenly, she missed me… so much.

Caio Fernando Abreu

This desire to be close, if far away; and closer, if close.

Vinicius de Moraes

Even when everything seems to fall apart, it’s up to me to decide between laughing or crying, going or staying, giving up or fighting; because I discovered, in the uncertain path of life, that the most important thing is to decide.

Cora Coralina

The longing is pieces of the other that were immortalized in us.

Jonas Gabriel

Honey, whenever I think of you, I start writing invisible love letters to your heart.

Alexandra Vasiliu

I miss you in ways that not even words can understand.

Gemma Troy

When I’m with you, hours feel like seconds. When we’re apart, days feel like years.

Saudade is that thing that scares you, that you kill today, and tomorrow it comes back early.

Allê Barbosa

I didn’t know it hurt so much, a table in the corner, a house and a garden. If I knew how much life hurts, this painful pain wouldn’t hurt like this. Now there’s a table left in the living room and today nobody talks about his mandolin anymore. That table is missing him and the longing for him is hurting me.

Nelson Gonçalves

Saudade is loving a past that has not yet passed, it is refusing a present that hurts us, it is not seeing the future that invites us…

Pablo Neruda

It takes longing for me to feel as I feel – in me – the mysterious presence of life…

Mario Quintana

Go my sadness and tell her that without her it can’t be. Tell her in a prayer that she come back because I can’t suffer anymore.

Vinicius de Moraes

I have reason to miss you, our coexistence in comradely speeches, simple handshakes, not even that, voice modulating familiar and banal syllables that were always certainty and security.

Carlos Drummond deAndrade

Longing is accompanied loneliness, it’s when love hasn’t left yet, but the loved one has already…

Pablo Neruda

I planned to say a lot of things to you, but in the end all I could muster was “I miss you”.

Keep these verses I wrote crying as a relief to my longing, as a duty of my love; and when there is an echo of longing in you, kiss these verses I wrote crying.

Machado de Assis