Jean-Dominique Bauby quotes

Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist and author, best known for writing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly." His memoir, written after suffering a massive stroke that left him almost completely paralyzed, inspired millions around the world. He demonstrated remarkable resilience and creativity by dictating his book through blinking his left eyelid. Here are 7 of his quotes:

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.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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

Jean-Dominique Bauby

The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.

Jean-Dominique Bauby