Hannah Arendt distinguished solitude from isolation and loneliness. Solitude, time spent in dialogue with oneself, can help ...

One day, I received a request for advice. It said, "I am feeling lonely."There was a quiet weariness in that person's voice.

New research reveals that reading alone in a café or listening to music during your commute may be more beneficial than complete isolation in nature, challenging common assumptions about the ...

In a thoughtful article on The Conversation entitled The Loneliness Myth, the author makes mincemeat of the so-called loneliness epidemic, calling out the “loneliness-as-pathology” perspective as a ...

In a frantic world, spending time alone can help you think more creatively, find calm, and discover more about yourself. Here ...

A candle flickers on the coffee table, sending a wisp of smoke into an empty, white-washed room. Foreign noises creak outside. I stare at the blank walls and the pictures scattered on the floor that ...

Social animals, most of us crave the companionship of other humans. Although we complain about their noisy interferences, we know that people are critical to our understanding of who we are. They ...

Portrait photograph of Greta Garbo, 1925. Source: Wikimedia/Creative Commons In a 1955 LIFE magazine profile of Greta Garbo, titled “The Braveness to Be Herself: In Private Affairs or in Public, Garbo ...

Hiking by yourself deep in a forest and similar episodes of intense solitude are not as likely to restore energy and enhance social connectedness as less complete forms of solitude, such as reading in ...