Alone

n. A second refill of coffee, or the third cup.... more

n. The feeling of solitude in the woods.... more

n. The meditative atmosphere of being alone in a bathroom.... more

adj. Feeling small and alone in a bustling city.... more

n. The primal longing for a home village to return to, a place that no longer exists, if it ever did.... more

n. The anxiety of not knowing "the real you".... more

n. The longing to be free of responsibility.... more

n. The awareness that someone you've known for years still has a private and mysterious inner life.... more

n. The unhinged delirium of being alone for an extended period of time.... more

n. The anxiety of never knowing how much time you have left.... more

n. A momentary trance of emotional clarity.... more

n. The poignant humanness beneath the spectacle of society.... more

n. Feeling torn between the life you want and the life you have.... more

n. The anxiety of being an individual.... more

n. The mystery of what goes on behind the scenes of your social life.... more

n. The smallest measurable unit of human connection typically exchanged between passing strangers.... more

n. A caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed.... more

n. The longing to see how other people live their lives when they're not in public.... more

n. The art of dwelling on the past.... more

n. The complicated solitude of hotel rooms late at night.... more

adj. Feeling quietly overjoyed to be the only one awake in the middle of the night.... more

adj. Feeling the haunting solitude of extremely remote places.... more