Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. — 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
“Okay, I know--my superpower--I'd be able to shoot lightening bolts out from my fingertips--great big knowledge network lightening bolts--and when a person… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Life was charmed but without politics or religion. It was the life of children of the children of the pioneers -life after… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. — 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
“I don't think human beings were meant to know so much about the world. All this time and all this exposure to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has… — 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
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the future, IKEA will become an ever more spiritual sanctuary. In the future, your dream life will increasingly look like Google… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too… — 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
