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Douglas Coupland Quotes about Sadness

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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

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
Life, Depression, Sadness
Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen to be there. Deal with it. Sadness and grief are part of being human and always will be.

Douglas Coupland
Grief, Sadness, Thinking
Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.156, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.

Douglas Coupland
Sorry, Sadness, Class
"Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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
Dog, Sadness, Said Life

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