Douglas Coupland Quotes
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Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell.…
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If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
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All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next.
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You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
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What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?
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You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
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If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
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Purchased experiences don't count.
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Technology favors horrible people.
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The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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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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I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.
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If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of…
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Every single moment is a coincidence.
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Wilcox Fate is for losers.
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If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
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Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
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Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
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If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
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