Top 350 Douglas Coupland Quotes (2024 Update)
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Douglas Coupland Quote: “What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?”

351. “What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “I think we’re simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.”

352. “I think we’re simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “When I was younger I used to worry so much about being alone – of being unlovable or incapable of love. As the years went on, my worries changed. I worried that I had become incapable of having a relationship, of offering intimacy. I felt as though the world lived inside a warm house at night and I was outside, and I couldn’t be seen – because I was out there in the night. But now I am inside that house and it feels just the same.”

353. “When I was younger I used to worry so much about being alone – of being unlovable or incapable of love. As the years went on, my worries changed. I worried that I had become incapable of having a relationship, of offering intimacy. I felt as though the world lived inside a warm house at night and I was outside, and I couldn’t be seen – because I was out there in the night. But now I am inside that house and it feels just the same.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “God, I wish he and I had been genuinely close as opposed to the “Don’t-they-look-nice-together-in-the-airbrushed-family-portrait close.”

354. “God, I wish he and I had been genuinely close as opposed to the “Don’t-they-look-nice-together-in-the-airbrushed-family-portrait close.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.”

355. “The sixties are like a theme park to them. They wear the costume, buy their tickets, and they have the experience.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don’t know any successful people.”

356. “I wish I could say that success turns people into plastic dolls, but the truth is that I don’t know any successful people.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “I’m not cheerful or domestic. I’m drab, crabby and friendless. I fill my days fighting a constant battle to keep my dignity. Loneliness is my curse- our species’ curse- it’s the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.”

357. “I’m not cheerful or domestic. I’m drab, crabby and friendless. I fill my days fighting a constant battle to keep my dignity. Loneliness is my curse- our species’ curse- it’s the gun that shoots the bullets that make us dance on a saloon floor and humiliate ourselves in front of strangers.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “People don’t change. They decay. They adopt ridiculous beliefs to pretend they have control over a world that is utterly indifferent to them. But they don’t change.”

358. “People don’t change. They decay. They adopt ridiculous beliefs to pretend they have control over a world that is utterly indifferent to them. But they don’t change.”

— Douglas Coupland

359. “My brain is built of paths and slides and ladders and lasers and i have invited all of you to enter its pavilion. my brain, as you enter, will smell of tangerines and brand-new running shoes.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio.”

360. “One psycho for every nine stable people in the company is a good ratio.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies’ afternoon tea.”

361. “Jesus, Neal, watching you eat with a spork is like seeing Helen Keller at a ladies’ afternoon tea.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they’re just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs.”

362. “Are you a minimalist? Do you take pride in a reductive life? Minimalists are actually extreme hoarders: they hoard space, and they’re just as odd as those people with seven rooms filled with newspapers, dead cats and margarine tubs.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “Ray, don’t get mad just because I say yes to life. I like to keep myself available to the universe, because it brings me wisdom. Maybe you don’t just want me to soar.”

363. “Ray, don’t get mad just because I say yes to life. I like to keep myself available to the universe, because it brings me wisdom. Maybe you don’t just want me to soar.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “How strange that all you have to do sometimes to meet somebody is walk up to their house and ring a doorbell, and magically they appear as if from nowhere.”

364. “How strange that all you have to do sometimes to meet somebody is walk up to their house and ring a doorbell, and magically they appear as if from nowhere.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “The less of a life, the more mail you need.”

365. “The less of a life, the more mail you need.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “Yes, Unit. That’s why we hired you for this series of shoots – you’re a unit. You’re good-looking but not too good-looking, and your face has the quality most essential for effective clip art: it’s pretty much impossible to remember.”

366. “Yes, Unit. That’s why we hired you for this series of shoots – you’re a unit. You’re good-looking but not too good-looking, and your face has the quality most essential for effective clip art: it’s pretty much impossible to remember.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “You know how sometimes after an afternoon nap you wake up with the shakes or anxiety? That’s what happened to me. I couldn’t remember who I was or where I was or what time of year it was or anything. All I knew was that I was. I felt so wide open, so vulnerable, like a great big field that’s just been harvested.”

367. “You know how sometimes after an afternoon nap you wake up with the shakes or anxiety? That’s what happened to me. I couldn’t remember who I was or where I was or what time of year it was or anything. All I knew was that I was. I felt so wide open, so vulnerable, like a great big field that’s just been harvested.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “Probably tastes like a pocket calculator garnished with dried herpes juice flakes.”

368. “Probably tastes like a pocket calculator garnished with dried herpes juice flakes.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “But when you’re caked in your own leavings, you don’t really mind being hit with brutally hard jets of water.”

369. “But when you’re caked in your own leavings, you don’t really mind being hit with brutally hard jets of water.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “And that’s the day I became an artist. Nobody blames an artist for noticing stuff.”

370. “And that’s the day I became an artist. Nobody blames an artist for noticing stuff.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “Today was the first day when I could really tell that summer was over. The cold air sparkled and the maple leaves were rotting, putting forth their lovely reek, like dead pancakes.”

371. “Today was the first day when I could really tell that summer was over. The cold air sparkled and the maple leaves were rotting, putting forth their lovely reek, like dead pancakes.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “There’s something fun about Sharpies that’s really hard to articulate.”

372. “There’s something fun about Sharpies that’s really hard to articulate.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “At meetings you have to explain what you’ve accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.”

373. “At meetings you have to explain what you’ve accomplished, so naturally you fluff up your work a bit, like pillows on a couch.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “We threw chew toys to Misty, Mom’s golden retriever that she bought two years ago secondhand. Misty was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog, but she failed her exam because she’s too affectionate. It’s a flaw we don’t mind.”

374. “We threw chew toys to Misty, Mom’s golden retriever that she bought two years ago secondhand. Misty was supposed to be a seeing-eye dog, but she failed her exam because she’s too affectionate. It’s a flaw we don’t mind.”

— Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland Quote: “She was born sad,” she said. “No, that’s not fair. People shouldn’t be born sad, because life will do that to them anyway.”

375. “She was born sad,” she said. “No, that’s not fair. People shouldn’t be born sad, because life will do that to them anyway.”

— Douglas Coupland

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