When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to re-evaluate your stance on the apocalypse as well as your own relationship to time and death. You realize that the world will indeed continue, with or without you, and the pictures you see in your head. So you try to understand the pictures instead.


Life After God (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2012) - ISBN: 9781471105586

Douglas Coupland Quotes

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to...

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to...

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to...

When you are young, you always expect that the world is going to end. And then you get older and the world still chugs along and you are forced to...