when your alone are you alone or lonely?

Neither alone nor lonely. As long as mind is different from Soul, presence of God is not felt. When mind becomes one with the Soul, God becomes manifest. In both conditions, to be Lone is not Alone. Two (the soul and the mind) within us is present. One is in one, one is in two, one is in infinity, that is the situation when it come to mind.

Loneliness is felt only when the senses gets closed and the Self focus on the mind and find it alone, where the situation is 'no interest in anything in the outside world except the presence of another human being'. As e.g. this emotion is evoked in most mental states where there lover is separated from the beloved, where a shut off takes place due to lack of interest in outside world. A person even forgets to breathe in such states glued to himself or herself and ultimately it gets vent as a long seigh.

Basically, Loneliness is felt when a Soul fails to perceive the Soul in everything. When human beings do not find togetherness(company) in lower animals, or they cannot associate or connect with them as they do with human beings. If anyone can feel the soul in the leaves of grass there can never be loneliness. Alone is a phenomena and loneliness is a state of mind.

Alone is an adjective or adverb, lonely is always an adjective. If your receiving a phone call and are asked if you are alone you answer yes, assuming there is no 'body' else around you. Isolated in physical form.

If you are asked are you lonely than you can choose to answer yes or no. This is a state of mind. If you have 6 personalities and have a ball when you are alone than you might not be lonely when you get that call. Then again, you might respond that you are indeed lonely so that they don't wonder how is it that you are not lonely when you are alone. You may lose friends quickly that way and then your chances of being lonely and alone would likely increase.

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even though im with other people who speak different language, it's strange that I don't feel lonely and instead just feeling alone. It's just like nobody's with you, only by yourself thinking and reflecting while you're 'alone' in the crowd.

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Yep, I felt lonely when here comes homesick, missings, worry, boredom and absence of friends. Even if the friends are there, I feel different and I couldn't just go and ask, "hey, let's talk..." because they won't ever understand me. It's like there's the barrier between me and them.

alone and lonely

Rarely I felt that. It's like being lost and don't know what to do without the guiding or suggestions. More like stuck in the darkness (example: in my exam, the language I didn't know very well, I'm stuck and alone- lonely with no help. No help or even whisper of advice from my seatmate.). Imagine yourself, you missed the station and you saw yourself separating from other people who never looked back at you. You felt alone and alone.

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I chose "alone" more because I always spent my time thinking. :)

I have been both alone and lonely and sometimes I was both. I like being alone sometimes, but I really don't like it when I am lonely. Kinda like right now.

Because philosophy deals with ideas as they are structured by the use of grammar and syntax, you did not properly ask your question.

When you are alone, you may ALSO be lonely; however, you MUST be alone.

So the strict answer is: you are alone.

But you may also be lonely.

If you had asked: "When you are by your self, are you merely alone or also lonely?" I could not have made this comment. I hope I have been helpful in pointing out to you the necessity of saying what you mean, and meaning what you say. Those 2 things are vitally important in philosophy.

I am alone as in alone with no one to walk along with me, or to help me carry the task i have to tackle. It is an adjective to describe the situation. Accompanying it with emotions to describe the person in such situation, makes one feel lonely.

Well, my feelings ran out, i do not feel, nor care.. So i think, i am just alone.

I'm alone, but usually not lonely.

I'm alone, not lonely. I actually enjoy my alone time, it's a rare and precious thing these days.

I am always alone but I've never been able to destinguish between being lonely or just being alone. Maybe I've only experienced one version?

Depends... you can be in a room full of people but feel very alone, cut off, unconnected and "different." If you can be happy within your own skin you then don't feel lonely.