Have you ever experienced a feeling of total aloneness?

I have - but in that kind of solitude I can sometimes hear that "still, small voice" a bit more clearly. God is always near.
That said, loneliness is the one thing in this world that I'm terrified of.

All the time. 

It caught me by surprise, on holiday in the south of France. I was 19 and found myself sitting on a porch with no idea what the next few days would bring and no one I knew for a thousand miles around me - it made me feel like weeping, though I didn't. 

A year or two later, I would become the sort of student who, when not attending classes, was happy leaving the apartment no more than once a week.