Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Being alone is very difficult.
Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.