Time Quotes by Douglas Coupland

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

— Douglas Coupland

The past is a finite resource.

— Douglas Coupland

Every single moment is a coincidence.

— Douglas Coupland

Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

— Douglas Coupland

Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

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Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

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Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

— Douglas Coupland

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

— Douglas Coupland

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

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Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.

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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

— Douglas Coupland

The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.

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Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

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I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my…

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“Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we…

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For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that…

— Douglas Coupland

If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment…

— Douglas Coupland

“Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as…

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“Chronotropic Drugs: Drugs engineered to affect one's sense of time. Chronodecelocotropic drugs have no short term effect but over time give one…

— Douglas Coupland

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have…

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It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk…

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“We then return our gaze to the mirror-boxed future-towns circling us-the hard drives of our culture, where the human tribe is making…

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When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life…

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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think…

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Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how…

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I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94,…

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Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in…

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After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth?…

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And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost…

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“Dimanchophobia: Fear of Sundays, not in a religious sense but rather, a condition that reflects fear of unstructured time. Also known as…

— Douglas Coupland

“You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph.…

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“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world…

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“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to…

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“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments…

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“John watched the pale black road, and he remembered a single moment during his time away in the wilderness. He wished he…

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In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

— Douglas Coupland

HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.

— Douglas Coupland

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space.

— Douglas Coupland

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

— Douglas Coupland

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

— Douglas Coupland