Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Figure out what it is in life you don't do well, and then don't do it. — 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
Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity. — 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
The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to… — 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
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
“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
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life… — 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
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
“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
Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your… — 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
I think half the people who get married now have met online. If I think about all the people in my life… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
By your thirties, you should be doing whatever it is you're supposed to be doing with your life and just get on… — 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
SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if… — 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
I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. — 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
Figure our what it is you don't do very well, and then don't do it. I'm not beating myself up about doing… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“The world was so unbearably pretty, and it continued being so all the way down the mountain to school. I felt slightly… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“...one of the biggest indicators for success in life is having a few crazy relatives. So long as you get only some… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Janet, life is just an endless banquet of loss, and each time a new loss is… — 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
“I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like… — 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
“What I will tell you, son of sons, is this: shortly, if not already, you will begin noticing the blackness inside us… — 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
