Douglas Coupland Quotes About Personality

Quotes about: Personality

• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

• Where does personality end and brain damage begin?

  Douglas Coupland

  Personality, Brain, Doe

  "Douglas Coupland: Everything Man". Interview with Ann Webb, www.rom.on.ca. January 16, 2015.

• Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.

  Douglas Coupland

  Brother, Regret, Grief

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

• PERSONALITY TITHE: A price paid for becoming a couple; previously amusing human beings become boring: 'Thanks for inviting us, but Noreen and I are going to look at flatware catalogs tonight. Afterward we're going to watch the shopping channel.

  Douglas Coupland

  Couple, Shopping, Personality

  1991 Generation X,'M T V Not Bullets'.

• I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Technology, Personality, Force

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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