Life Quotes Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Most people can't handle a structureless life. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is fantastic. It's volcanic and sexy and utterly unlike anything I've read before. It feels like the future in a dazzling way that has nothing to do with looking backward. It's been a long wait for a new novel from Mark Leyner, but worth it. Ten out of ten from me. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll borrow your heart and they'll forget to return it to you. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at once. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You can never become rich unless you like rich people. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers! —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes OPTION PARALYSIS: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I don't understand beauty. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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 CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I thought about 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. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Everybody has a ‘gripping stranger’ in their lives, Andy, a stranger who unwittingly possesses a bizarre hold over you. Maybe it’s the kid in cut-offs who mows your lawn or the woman wearing White Shoulders who stamps your book at the library—a stranger who, if you were to come home and find a message from them on your answering machine saying ‘Drop everything. I love you. Come away with me now to Florida,’ you’d follow them. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They’re an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Ski boots are the worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes 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. —Douglas CouplandWhatsappFacebookTwitterPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this