My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event. — 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
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was. — 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
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
“[...] 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
...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
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
After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“What one moment from you defines what it’s like to be alive on this planet. What’s your takeaway?’’ There is silence. Tobias… — 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 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 wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the water, an, if we… — 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
“By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
My own experience with being interviewed is mixed. I suppose they're a part of my job, and as I would like readers… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No… — 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
I keep vampire hours, going to bed at 2 A.M. and waking up at about 10:30-11 A.M. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
“Anna-Louise leans over and whispers in my ear. "This is so surreal," she says, "I think I'm turning into a melting clock.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
When you grow up these days, you're told you're going to have four or five different careers during your lifetime. But what they don't… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
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