Jean-Dominique Bauby Quotes in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

Jean-Dominique Bauby: I decided to stop pitying myself. Other than my eye, two things aren't paralyzed, my imagination and my memory.

Jean-Dominique Bauby: We're all children, we all need approval.

Jean-Dominique Bauby: A poet once said, "Only a fool laughs when nothing's funny"

Dr. Lepage: We want you to take it easy for a few days.

Jean-Dominique Bauby: What do you think I'm doing now?

Jean-Dominique Bauby: Like a sailor seeing the shore disappear, I watch my past recede, reduced to the ashes of memory.

Jean-Dominique Bauby: My diving bell has dragged you down to the bottom of the sea, with me.