The Sea Inside Quotes

Joaquín: There's only one thing worse than having your son die on you... him wanting to.

Ramón Sampedro: [in monologue] Only time and the evolution of consciences will decide one day if my request was reasonable or not.

Ramón Sampedro: When you can't escape, and you constantly rely on everyone else, you learn to cry by smiling, you know?

Rosa: Love is an impulse. You can't rationalize it.

Julia: Ramón, why to die?

Ramón Sampedro: The person who really loves me will be the one who helps me die. That's love, Rosa. That's love.

Conductor: Aren't you Ramón Sampedro? It's an honour.

Rosa: Fear is a powerful weapon. Fear doesn't give you the power to decide.

Gené: Fear is a powerful weapon. Fear doesn't give you the power to decide.

Ramón Sampedro: [to Rosa] Yes, run. You that can.

Ramón Sampedro: Dear Julia... when Gené told me that a lawyer wanted my case, there was something that influenced my decision and it was the fact that the lawyer suffered a degenerative disease. I thought that only someone in that condition could really understand mine... and shared my hell. Now I know that living in that hell is sometimes worth it, if one gets to meet people like you. Is worth it to have shared a cigarette with them or, like right now, caressing them even if its just by writing some foolishness like this.

Ramón Sampedro: [to this brother] What if you have an accident tomorrow and you die? Have you thought about it? What would happen to me? I would have to take care of the family, right? Of your wife, your son, dad... with that miserable pension of mine.

Ramón Sampedro: Why does the Church keep with such passion that posture of terror of death? Because it knows that it would lose a great amount of its customers if people lose their fear to the Great Beyond.

Demonstrators: Living is a right, not an obligation! Living is a right, not an obligation!

Ramón Sampedro: The person that really loves me is the one that will help me die. That is love, Rosa.

Rosa: Ramon. If there's really life after death... I know this is going to sound foolish, but... Please send me a sign? Anything. I never was scared of spirits. I will be very alert. Waiting. Will you do it?

Ramón Sampedro: Judges, political and religious authorities. What does dignity mean to you? Whatever the answer of your conscience, know that for me, this is not a worthy life. I would have liked to at least die with dignity. Today, tired of the institutional laziness, I see myself forced to do it in hiding, like a criminal. You should know that the processes conducting to my death has been carefully divided in small actions that do not constitute a crime by themselves and have been executed by several friendly hands. If even then, the state insists in punishing my helpers, I would suggest that you cut their hands, because that is all that they contributed. The head, I mean the conscience, was provided by me. As you can see, to my side I have a glass of water that contains a dose of potassium cyanide, when I drink it I will cease to exist, relinquishing my most precious property: my body. I believe that living is a right not an obligation, as it has been in my case, forced to accept this sad situation during 28 years, 4 months and some days. After all this time, I make a balance of the road traveled and I can't account for the happiness, only the time that passed against my will, during most of my life. Time will be my ally from now on. Only time and the evolution of consciences will decide one day if my request was reasonable or not.

Marc: In a state declared as lay and that recognizes the right to the private property and which constitution expresses also the right not to suffer tortures or degrading treatments, is correct to say, that whomever sees his position as degrading, as in Ramon Sampedro's case, should be able to decide over his own life. In fact, no one that attempts suicide and survives is judged afterwards, but... when you need the help of someone else to die with dignity, then the state interferes with the freedom of the people and tells them that the life they are living is not theirs, that they can't make decisions about it. This, Your Honor, can only be done based on metaphysical beliefs, or religious. In a state, I repeat... that is declared lay, Your Honor, I ask for a legal answer, but above all, rational and human.