Well, that's kind of an oxymoron, since "Saudade", as given in Wikipedia. means "a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. It often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never return."
It's one of those strange foreign words that has no equivalent in our language and takes a couple dozen English words to describe. In Brazil, they celebrate it today, January 30th.
I have Dinocomics to thank for this bit of enlightenment. The Wiki article on it is here. If you are unfamiliar with Dino Comics, the link is here.
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