Loneliness

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

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

adj. Feeling lonely in a crowd; unable to communicate with anonymous faces.... 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. A solitary experience you wish you could have shared with someone else.... more

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

n. An important part of your personality that remains hidden from others.... more

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

n. A pang of shame from an embarrassing adolescent memory.... 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 awareness of how little we really know.... 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 atmosphere of camaraderie when people are stuck together in a certain place.... more

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

v. To mindlessly perform a tedious and unnoticed task in pursuit of unwanted outcomes.... more

n. The brilliant artistry hidden all around you.... more

n. The fear that you've lived an ordinary life.... more

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

n. A recurring thought that strikes late at night, often forgotten but resurfaces, quietly building a nest.... 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n. A caricature of yourself that went out of date years ago, though nobody around you seems to have noticed....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 feeling of being stuck on Earth.... more

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

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

n. A mysterious aura of loneliness felt in certain places.... more

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

n. The lulling isolation of driving late at night.... more

n. A conversation where everyone talks but nobody listens, each borrowing bits of others' anecdotes to build their own.... more

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

adj. Feeling hollowed out by excessive exposure to modern technology.... more

n. Unvisited restaurant near cinema.... more