Le scaphandre et le papillon

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?

[last lines]

C?line:
Bauby, 43, a renowned journalist, family man and free spirit, was planning a book about female revenge.

Papinou:
Having a mistress is no excuse for leaving the mother of your children; the world has lost its values.

Roussin:
Hold fast to the human inside of you, and you'll survive.

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

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