Douglas Coupland Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Philosophy, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• 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

• If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.

  Douglas Coupland

  Spiritual, Practice, Soul

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.31, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

  Douglas Coupland

  Soul, Looks, Way

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

• 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

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