Quote

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

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
Authentic
Genuine
Failure
Pure
State
States
Real

More quotes by Douglas Coupland

Image
You can never become rich unless you like rich people.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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.
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
I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
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
My writing process is ritualized and monotonous, but there's no other way to get the job done. All other fiction writers I've met say the same thing.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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 Coupland
Image
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 Coupland
Image
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 Coupland
Image
As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
Douglas Coupland
Image
In our heads we're all about 33 years old.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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
Image
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
Douglas Coupland
Image
You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.
Douglas Coupland
Image
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.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!
Douglas Coupland
Image
Jason said, Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe. What does the 'T' stand for? 'The.
Douglas Coupland
Image
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Douglas Coupland