Rene Desmaison quotes

Rene Desmaison quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“According to your medical checkup, you are dead.”
-- Rene Desmaison

#Death Quotes #Suicide Quotes #Medical Quotes

“My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.”
“Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.”
“Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”
“I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.”
“I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.”
“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”
“I think the medical term for the injury is 'the bottom of my ***** hurts.'”
“I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.”
“I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them.”
“I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.”

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