The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I don't want to lose you. I can't imagine ever feeling this strongly about anything or anybody ever again. This was unexpected,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
