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the ache that proves you were built for company, not solitary confinement.
means Feeling sad and isolated because you're alone or lack companionship — or describing a place that's remote and unfrequented.
from From 'lone' plus the suffix '-ly,' and 'lone' itself is a clipped form of 'alone' — which began life as the two-word phrase 'all one,' meaning 'wholly by oneself.' Over time English wore 'all one' down to 'alone,' then trimmed off the front to leave the solitary little 'lone,' which 'lonely' was built from in the late 1500s. So the word literally carries the bruised memory of being 'all one' — entirely singular, with no one else in the count.
- health hit
- Chronic loneliness rivals smoking fifteen cigarettes daily.
- brain scan
- It activates the same regions as physical pain.
- crowd paradox
- You can feel loneliest surrounded by people.
- language gift
- German has 'Waldeinsamkeit,' the joy of forest solitude.
- survival code
- Early humans alone meant exposed and likely dead.
christopher knight penn state — hermit lived alone in maine woods for 27 years until arrested in 2013
tom hanks cast away — stranded on island for 4 years in 2000 film, talks to volleyball