Douglas Coupland Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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

#Life #Lonely #Loneliness

“One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Care #Persons

“I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Loneliness #School #Thinking

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Knowing #People #Matter

“Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Dream #Mean #Flying

“Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Sex #Eye #Looks

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Hurt #Philosophy #Soul

“When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Lying #Crops

“If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Hater #Tree

“In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Dream #Sleep #Soul

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Creativity #Fake #Three

“I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Book #Unique #Thinking

“At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Summer #People #Scary

“There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Three #Cry #Lost

“If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Failure #Doe #Looks

“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Family #People #Three

“You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Loss #Caring #Thinking

“You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Waiting #Doe #Plot

“If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Life #Good Life

“Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Air #Leaving #Bars

“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 year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Holiday #Years #Finding Yourself

“You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights where there was dimness. We'll testify together to what we have seen and felt. Life will go on--all of us--crawling; stumbling, falling perhaps. But we will be the strong ones. Our hearts will shine brightly.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Strong #Fall #Heart

“Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Sick #Feelings #Trying

“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 be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Crazy #Dark #Sky

“The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Life #Rain #Fall

“You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Life Changing #Fate #Waiting

“Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Strong #People #Teeth

“How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Clouds #Rocks #Water

“My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Kindness #Giving #Sick

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.”
-- Douglas Coupland

#Hurt #People #Luck