Blase J. Cupich Quotes

I don't care about a social life.

I've never been super close to family. I've never relied on anyone.

Once you're alienated, you're on your own. That takes you to the world of the existential, where things just kind of float.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I don't belong to anyone.

We're all alone in this world.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Solitude is un-American.

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

We're all in this alone.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

Remember we're all in this alone.

I think I learned pretty early that in the end, it's only you. To an extent, you're all alone.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.