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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.