Douglas Coupland Quotes
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I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience
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The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts.
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Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.
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Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
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It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
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I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.
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I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.
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It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.
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Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.
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Time erases both the best and the worst of us.
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I thought it would be such a sick joke to have to remain to be alive for decades and not believe in or feel anything.
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We're all born lost, aren't we? We're all born separated from God - over and over life makes sure to inform us of this - and yet we're all real: we have names, we have lives. We mean something. We must.
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How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?
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PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.
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New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
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CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.
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Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com.
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We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.
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High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
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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.
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People will always choose more money over more sex
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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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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.
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A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
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I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.
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The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.
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You can only fall in love six times in your life. Choose wisely.
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