Douglas Coupland Quotes

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

Life without hope is no life.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

For in hope's absence, a miracle arrived

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other.

Hope hurt more than the cold.

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.