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Doug Coupland

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Doug Coupland is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. With equal ease, Doug Coupland moved between Future and Failure, finding connections others missed. Our collection includes 60 quotes from Doug Coupland, touching on Future, Failure, Money, Family, and Time — a testament to just how much they had to say. Start here and see if you agree: "Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure."

“Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.”

— Doug Coupland

Change

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

“We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.”

— Doug Coupland

Death

“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”

— Doug Coupland

Alone

“Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.”

— Doug Coupland

Happiness

“People will always choose more money over more sex.”

— Doug Coupland

Money

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

— Doug Coupland

Love

“The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.”

— Doug Coupland

Business

“The future and eternity are two entirely different things.”

— Doug Coupland

Future

“If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?”

— Doug Coupland

Change

“Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.”

— Doug Coupland

Dreams

“Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.”

— Doug Coupland

Family

“Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.”

— Doug Coupland

Men

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

— Doug Coupland

Alone

“I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'”

— Doug Coupland

Future

“We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.”

— Doug Coupland

History

“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

“You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.”

— Doug Coupland

Fear

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

— Doug Coupland

Courage

“When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.”

— Doug Coupland

Future

“Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.”

— Doug Coupland

Failure

“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”

— Doug Coupland

Nature