“Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing. We wake up in the morning, we cast our nets into the water, an, if we are lucky, at day's end we will have netted one-- maybe two-- small fish. Occasionally we will net a seahorse or sometimes a shark-- or a life preserver or an iceberg, or a monster. And in our dreams at night we assess our Catch of the Day-- the treasures of this long, slow process of accumulation...”

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland - “Life is maybe like deep-sea fishing...” 1

Similar quotes

“Logic is a net to catch a „fish“ with. And the Truth is like water that can not be caught with net”

Anatoliy Obraztsov
Read more

“We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”

Kent Nerburn
Read more

“That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”

Peter Heller
Read more

“I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleeping bag into the chill and found the rough ground with my bare foot and rocked myself back and forth. And watched the stars swim against the mesh of leaves. Like a fish nosing a net.This is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”

Peter Heller
Read more

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Read more