How lonely do you feel?

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I rarely feel lonely, however, sometimes I need socializing.
But many times socializing is too tiring for me and I need to retire in my own world.
I guess I would survive much better in loneliness than socializing with people who don't make me feel comfortable (most of them make me feel so).

I haven't felt lonely in a long time, even when I have spent three days in isolation.

Three days is too little

I rather quite like my own company overall (strongly value and need solitude), but I still find myself trying to hunt down my clone.

Traces of loneliness, detected.

I answered sometimes, when in fact I very rarely wish for company. My occasional loneliness usually stems from feeling misunderstood, which can happen when I'm with others, and happens less when I'm alone. I love my solitude. Thus my avatar, Heidi up on her mountain with the goats.

When I sit down and think by myself... that is when I feel lonely. But when I'm distracted by anything, I am content. Or at least temporarily relieved from that feeling.

It gets intense. It's always the feeling that I'm missing someone who I can actually connect with and call a best friend or a romantic partner. I constantly feel as though I'm missing something like that.

Yes, I do. I feel lonely often.

I have a job and have people around at work all the time. It's when they (my colleagues) spontaneously gather and start joking or talking personally that I feel left out and lonely because I somehow cannot join them. If I do join in, then I feel awkward and I can sense they are feeling rather uncomfortable, too. In any group situation, it's always the same. I feel deeply sad about being left out and feeling like an alien. Somehow I feel I'm fundamentally different from others and don't belong to the rest of the people.

When I am alone at home, I do enjoy doing many solitary things such as reading, studying etc. I am probably becoming a little immune to solitude. But when I think about the fact I'm spending so much time alone, it saddens me. I am longing to socialize, but I really can't because of my awkwardness. Yes, the longing is there.

I'm still hoping to find someone (either very close friend(s) or a romantic partner) whom I can call soulmate(s).

I voted sometimes. There have been ties in my life where I have felt alone with no support. I've always had my family and a few friends are around but they've seemed distant at times. Ever since I started college, I don't feel lonely as often as I used to because I am always busy and my social life has improved quite a bit.

I don't really feel loneliness all that often. Lately...never. I have an almost non-existent social life and I started living on my own a few months ago when I started grad school (which puts my family about two hours away from me now--although my kitties and my gerbils keep me company). I go out once every second week for lunch at the school with a friend I made in class, and that is about the extent of my social life. I don't actively seek any social contact outside of school Occasionally people will ask me, and sometimes I go (usually only if it is one-on-one) and sometimes I make an excuse not to.

I often feel lonely, but I don't let it get in the way now that I'm back in school.

Sometimes i feel lonely but most of the time i don't.

I'm lonely but I love being lonely. Socialising just seems to make me stressed. I'd prefer to spend time with my special interests.

Living so far away from Chrissy, and not being able to see or touch her makes me feel very, very lonely sometimes. So I checked off "sometimes" instead of "never".

I'm very seldom lonely. I've accepted that people don't need me, so I've become accustomed to being alone. I prefer it that way since it gives me more time to engage in my hobbies.