Loneliness Quotes by Douglas Coupland

11 Loneliness quotes by Douglas Coupland

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Douglas Coupland’s eleven brief remarks blend contemporary culture with the ache of being alone. They’re crisp, relatable, and perfect for a quick cultural pause.

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The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

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Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things…

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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys…

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“If he'd learned one thing while he'd been away, it was that loneliness is the most taboo subject in the world. Forget…

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“It hit him that his own form of loneliness was a luxury, one as chosen and as paid for as three weeks…

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“I don't want to lose you. I can't imagine ever feeling this strongly about anything or anybody ever again. This was unexpected,…

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“When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it…

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Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until…

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I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high…

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Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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“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…

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“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical…

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