Douglas Coupland quotes - Page : 6

" Nobody believes the identites we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow. " # Love # Friends and Friendship # Belief

" There's nothing at the center of what we do. " # Cities and City Life

" Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with. " # Friends and Friendship # Dreams # Perseverance

" There's a hardness I'm seeing in modern people. Those little moments of goofiness that used to make the day pass seem to have gone. Life's so serious now. " # President # Love # Life and Living

" What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life? " # Life and Living # Writers and Writing # Thoughts and Thinking

" We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age. " # Age and Aging # Change # Time and Time Management

" Scrape. Feel. Dig. Believe. Ask. " # Lies and Lying

" Ask whatever challenges dead and thoughtless beliefs. " # Belief # Love # Death and Dying

" If you're not spending every waking moment of your life radically rethinking the nature of the world - if you're not plotting every moment boiling the carcass of the old order - then you're wasting your day. " # Mind # Love # Time and Time Management

" People like that woman make it clear just how asinine it is to believe that human beings have some kind of in-built universal sense of goodness. These days I think that everybody's just one spit away from being a mall bomber. " # Behavior # Arts and Artists # Love