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- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
- Juice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
- Apologize
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
- Losers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fate is for losers.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.
- Modern
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
- Construction
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless.
- Oneself
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- Nov 07, 2020
Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tofu hot dogs are actually scarier than real hot dogs. It's like wanting the worst possible meat product without even the thrill of it actually being meat.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.
- Family History
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.
- Brain Damage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
- Experiences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Purchased experiences don't count.
- Horrible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology favors horrible people.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
- Haul
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
If nothing else, we simply get used to being alive.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got 911 on speed dial.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
- Buys
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
- Lottery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
- Halo
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- Nov 07, 2020
A ring is a halo on your finger.
- Cartoon
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single moment is a coincidence.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
- Nov 07, 2020
You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the killers get far too much attention.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020