Douglas Coupland Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth? What one moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet? What's your takeaway? Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Elephants, White

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, March 15, 1991.

• I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints... I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Book, Unique, Thinking

  "The Gum Thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2007.

• I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too.

  Douglas Coupland

  Rocks, Earth, Saws

• All systems have failed me. In five minutes I'll be fine again for a while, but right now the inside of my head feels like Niagara Falls without the noise, just this mist and churning and no real sense of where earth ends and heaven begins.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Fall, Heaven

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Hey Nostradamus!”, p.108, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

• Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Two, Roots

• I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Achievement, Hard Life

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Why are we even here [on earth], what's our human nature? It's precipitating a real philosophical crisis that I find quite fascinating.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Philosophical, Earth

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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