33 Quotes by Jean-Dominique Bauby

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

Speech therapy is an art that deserves to be more widely known. You cannot imagine the acrobatics your tongue mechanically performs in order to produce all the sounds of a language.

What demon could have induced people to line a whole room with orange fabric?

If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.

Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.

Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

I need to feel strongly, to love and admire, just as desperately as I need to breathe.

But I see in the clothes a symbol of continuing life. And proof that I still want to be myself. If I must drool, I may as well drool on cashmere.