Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What about life after death?" "What about death after life after death?” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“[...] and it was like the universe had suddenly turned itself off and the world was almost holy, like life was suddenly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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
Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love… — 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
We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Our curse as humans is that we are trapped in time; our curse is that we are forced to interpret life as… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that… — 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
After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth?… — 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
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
If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Question: would I do it the same way all over again? Absolutely - because I learned something along the way. Most people… — 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
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it. — 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
It's not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. — 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
My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. — 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
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