Douglas Coupland Quotes About Feelings

• If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Oil, Ducks

• Con Google empiezo a estar quemado por saber la respuesta a todo. La gente en el año 2020 va a tener nostalgia de la sensación de sentirse despistada.

  Douglas Coupland

  Clueless, Years, Knowing

• Hay mucho que decir sobre sentirse insensible. El tiempo pasa más deprisa. Comes menos y, como el adormecimiento fomenta la pereza, haces menos cosas, buenas o malas, y probablemente el mundo sea un lugar mejor por ello.

  Douglas Coupland

  Numbness, Feelings, World

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.208, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

  Douglas Coupland

  Lonely, Real, Loneliness

• I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Adults, Youth

• Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sick, Feelings, Trying

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

• I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're past thirty you lose that ability; instead of feeling sorry for yourself you turn bitter.

  Douglas Coupland

  Sorry, Past, People

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

• Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with others what we are feeling Beyond a certain age, sincerity ceases to feel pornographic. It is as though the coolness that marked out youth is itself a type of retrovirus that can only leave you feeling empty. Full of holes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Feelings, Age, Needs

• Si algo he aprendido en veintinueve años es que cada ser humano que ves a lo largo del día tiene un problema que absorbe al menos el 70% de su radar. Mi don -mala elección de palabras- es que puedo mirarte a ti, a él, a ella, a ellos, a quien sea, y saber de inmediato qué es lo que les quita el sueño: dinero, sentimientos de insignificancia, aburrimiento abrumador, hijos malvados, problemas laborales o quizá la muerte, con uno de sus muchos disfraces, acechando entre bastidores. Lo que me sorprende de la humanidad es que, al final, un abanico tan estrecho de penurias defina nuestra vida moral.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Children, Night

• Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold.

  Douglas Coupland

  Girl, Falling In Love, Powerful

• Mi humor ha cambiado ahora. Y el sol se ha ocultado tras las nubes. Estoy de este humor que siento de vez en cuando... este humor en el que hay un muy buen amigo cerca al que debería llamar por teléfono. Si pudiera hablar con él, todo iría bien. El dilema es, por supuesto, que no sé quién es ese amigo. Pero en el fondo sé que mi estado de ánimo no es más que un sentimiento de desconexión con mi verdadero yo interior.

  Douglas Coupland

  Heart, Good Friend, Clouds

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Caring, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fate, Feelings, One Day

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

• Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.

  Douglas Coupland

  Unique, Feelings, Indication

• You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff? That's just not enough. Look at us all. What's the common assumption that got us all from there to here? What makes us deserve the ice cream and running shoes and wool Italian suits we have? I mean, I see all of us trying so hard to acquire so much stuff, but I can't help but feeling that we didn't merit it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Running, Morning, Mean

• ¿Cómo es la claridad? Intenta recordar esa extraña sensación dentro de tu cabeza cuando tenías problemas de matemáticas demasiado difíciles de resolver: el leve zumbido en los oídos, una pesadez a ambos lados del cráneo y la sensación de que tu cerebro se agita dentro del cráneo como un pez en la playa. Es la sensación opuesta a la claridad. Sin embargo, para muchas personas de mi época, a medida que envejecían, esta sensación se convertía en la dominante de sus vidas. Era como si la vida cotidiana del siglo XX se hubiera convertido en una ecuación algebraica irresoluble.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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