Doug Coupland Quotes

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
Doug Coupland

Family, Pretty, Forgiving

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
Doug Coupland

Person, Lazy, Blame

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
Doug Coupland

Love, Depression, Taking

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
Doug Coupland

Care, Person, Another

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
Doug Coupland

Alone, Time, Yourself

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Doug Coupland

Loneliness, Woman, Book

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value.
Doug Coupland

Human, Everything, Brain

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
Doug Coupland

Courage, Human, Year

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
Doug Coupland

Christmas, Sad, Everything

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Doug Coupland

Alone, Lonely, Feeling

Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives.
Doug Coupland

Thinking, Brain, Down

A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
Doug Coupland

Good, Smile, Forget

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
Doug Coupland

Person, Needs, Stronger

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug Coupland

May, State, Miracle

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug Coupland

Religion, Politics, Sex

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
Doug Coupland

Funny, Nothing, Lovable

If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
Doug Coupland

Good, Crisis, Spiritual

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
Doug Coupland

Life, Weather, Mad

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Doug Coupland

Family, History, Knowledge

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.
Doug Coupland

Adventure, Risk, Disneyland

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
Doug Coupland

Time, Good, Bad

Every single moment is a coincidence.
Doug Coupland

Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
Doug Coupland

Life, Dreams, Mean

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
Doug Coupland

Future, Rich, Become

Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
Doug Coupland

End, Brain, Begin

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Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: December 30, 1961

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