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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."

“It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.”

— Doug Coupland

Future

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

“If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.”

— Doug Coupland

Car

“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

“Technology favors horrible people.”

— Doug Coupland

Technology

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Failure

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

— Doug Coupland

Death

“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”

— Doug Coupland

Birthday

“Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.”

— Doug Coupland

Age

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

— Doug Coupland

Love

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

— Doug Coupland

Money

“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

“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

“I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.”

— Doug Coupland

Money

“In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.”

— 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

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

— Doug Coupland

Alone

“It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.”

— Doug Coupland

Future

“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

“Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.”

— Doug Coupland

Famous

“Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.”

— Doug Coupland

Failure