The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. — 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
“For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If you're not spending every waking moment of your day radically rethinking the nature of the world-if you're not plotting every moment… — 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
I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Do you realize, Tyler,' says Anna-Louise, 'the entire time we were in the forest it rained steadily and not once did we… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Imagine you're a forty-year-old, Richard," Hamilton said to me around this time, while working as a salesman at a Radio Shack in… — 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
I've got all my old laptops going back to my first, which was so fancy at the time, in '93 or '94,… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You like all animals at that moment, although no doubt you will one day choose your favorites. Your own nature will triumph.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“This past year - if you'd have tried, you'd have seen even more clearly the futility of trying to change the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“John watched the pale black road, and he remembered a single moment during his time away in the wilderness. He wished he… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I'm not a hoarder, I'm a collector: if you have something you like, every time you see it, you have a little… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“It's what makes us different from every other creature in the world - we have time. And we have choices” — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk… — 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
![“There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. Maybe it's just because I'm with an older gang now.[...]I mean nobody even has hobbies these days. Not that I can see. Husbands and wives both…” quote by Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/804/douglas-coupland-305_consumption_there-s-a-hardness-i-m-seeing-in-modern_1420139.jpg)
