6 Douglas Coupland Quotes on Fear

Douglas Coupland quotes on fear

4. All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.

16. I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that 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.

22. You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you worry you are an interchangeable cog.

26. You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.

48. We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.

80. Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?