World Quotes by Douglas Coupland

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

— Douglas Coupland

The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two…

— Douglas Coupland

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it…

— Douglas Coupland

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment…

— Douglas Coupland

The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.

— Douglas Coupland

The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs…

— Douglas Coupland

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

— Douglas Coupland

Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.

— Douglas Coupland

I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the…

— Douglas Coupland

I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and…

— Douglas Coupland

Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them…

— Douglas Coupland

“It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy;…

— Douglas Coupland

As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I…

— Douglas Coupland

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a…

— Douglas Coupland

How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories…

— Douglas Coupland

For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that…

— Douglas Coupland

Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the…

— Douglas Coupland

And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost…

— Douglas Coupland

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

When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern…

— Douglas Coupland

You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab.…

— Douglas Coupland

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the…

— Douglas Coupland

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world…

— Douglas Coupland

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and…

— Douglas Coupland

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.

— Douglas Coupland

It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because…

— Douglas Coupland

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

— Douglas Coupland

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

— Douglas Coupland

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

— Douglas Coupland

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

— Douglas Coupland

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

— Douglas Coupland

Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people…

— Douglas Coupland

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

I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints…I think that, as you…

— Douglas Coupland

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention…

— Douglas Coupland

Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be…

— Douglas Coupland

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about…

— Douglas Coupland

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do…

— Douglas Coupland

In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's…

— Douglas Coupland

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of…

— Douglas Coupland