Quote

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.

Douglas Coupland

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Douglas Coupland
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: December 30
Artist
Designer
Fashion Designer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Douglas Campbell Coupland
Life
Merely
Gets
Anyone
Used
Anything
Ever
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Douglas Coupland

Image
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Beware of the corporate invasion of private memory.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives the rest is filler.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Q: If you could be an animal, what kind of animal would you be? A: You already are an animal.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.
Douglas Coupland
Image
The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
Douglas Coupland
Image
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Douglas Coupland
Image
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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 Coupland
Image
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
Image
Chronocanine Envy: Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, Life must be lived forward.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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
Image
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.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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.
Douglas Coupland
Image
You know what the best thing is about the end of the day? Tomorrow, it starts all over again.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere.
Douglas Coupland