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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."

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“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

All Quotes by Doug Coupland

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

— Doug Coupland

Alone

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Future

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

— Doug Coupland

Courage

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

— Doug Coupland

Funny

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Fear

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Family

“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

“Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.”

— Doug Coupland

Relationship

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

— Doug Coupland

Failure

“I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?”

— Doug Coupland

Food

“Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.”

— Doug Coupland

Failure

“If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.”

— Doug Coupland

Hope

“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

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

— Doug Coupland

Birthday

“Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.”

— Doug Coupland

Car

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

— Doug Coupland

Love