The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My mood has changed now. And the sun has gone behind the clouds. I'm in this mood I feel occasionally... this mood… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
