Douglas Coupland Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

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

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Flying

• In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Sleep, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

• There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Said, Manageable

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Václav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Cat, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Cancer, Garden

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.119, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• A few years ago it dawned on me that 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.

  Douglas Coupland

  Birthday, Dream, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Hasn't it been a long time since you had a flying dream?

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Long, Flying

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.11, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Strong, Heat Of The Sun

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

• In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravagant, and one explanation of this might be that we know that wasted water means a diminished collective soul; polluted waters mean a sickened soul. Water is the basis of our self-identity, and when we dream of canoes and thunderstorms and streams and even snowballs, we're dreaming about our innermost selves.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Mean, Self

• A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Technology, Progress

• We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Sleep, Needs

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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