Another viewer question: Max tells you the difference between alone and lonely... and there may be a song involved.
Dear Max,
A few days ago I heard someone say "I'm alone, but not lonely". I don't understand this at all. I use both words to say the same thing. Is there a difference?
Katarzyna, from Poland (living in Manchester)
alone vs lonely
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Is there an obvious difference?
"I feel lonely"
"I feel lonely"
"I feel lonely"
"I am alone"
"I feel lonely"
"I am alone"
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You see a man in the library. He is working at the desk. He is not talking to anyone. He is...
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You've just broken up with your partner. You are at a couples dinner. You are the only single there. You start to feel a bit ___.
"Lonely" is the feeling of sadness when someone is not around.
"Alone" is the condition of actually not having someone around.
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A gangster is handing over a package to another gangster. They meet in a quiet alleyway. One asks the other...
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You are texting a friend who has recently been dumped. What is a more sensitive thing to say?
"You feel lonely because you are alone."
EXCEPTION: Things can be lonely if you are poetically describing something/where that is quiet and far from other people.
The lonely mountain sat on the horizon!
EXCEPTIONS: People use "alone" in a literary/poetic way sometimes in a similar way to "lonely".
"I have my friends around me... but I just feel very alone right now."
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