A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. — 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
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments… — 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
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
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And I think back over my own life and I realize that my own nature-the core me-essentially hasn’t changed all these years.… — 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
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the… — 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
One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and… — 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
