Douglas Coupland Quotes - Page 14

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice.

Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe that, in constantly bombarding Him with requests for miracles, we're also asking that He unravel the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would be a cartoon, not a world.

It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then one day you wake up and you've become all those other people- the others- the something you aren't. And you wonder if you can ever be what it is you really are. Or you wonder if it's too late to find out.

My brain feels like a cool, deep lake.

Jason said, "Yes. Gerard T. Giraffe." What does the 'T' stand for?" 'The.

She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

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.

Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.

I think there is a Paris inside us all.

Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people at random and then says to them all, 'Hey! You're going to spend the next seventy years together, even though you have nothing in common and don't even like each other. And, should you not feel yourself caring about any of this group of strangers, even for a second, you will just feel dreadful

You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author photos any more; people just Google a person and get on with things.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

A ring is a halo on your finger.

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

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.

What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?

Letting go of randomness is one of the hardest decisions a person can make.