Dementia Quotes

Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.

— Bill Crawford

“When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,”

— Ciara Smyth

“Her mind is a prison she desperately tries to break out of”

— Henning Thiel

To limit any extra care that is sometimes called dementia.

— Nishan Panwar

“You only know yourself because of your memories.”

— Andrea Gillies

Dementia was like a truth serum.

— Amy Tan

“I love you but I got to love me more.”

— Peggi Speers

I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

— Pat Summitt

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease that affects many of our loved ones.

— Mike Parson

If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.

— Phyllis Logan

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

— Gregory Petsko

“In this journey, it wasn’t her forgetting that broke me. It was the glimpses of her remembering.”

— Barb Drummond

It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.

— Terry Pratchett

“Today is World Alzheimer’s Day. What are you supposed to do with that? Try to remember it?”

— Hendrik Groen

My mum, she brought so much light. Unfortunately she had many strokes and she had dementia.

— Judi Love

My dad, Mike, died, after a decade of living with dementia - I say 'living,' but it was no life for him.

— Chris Sutton

Several members of my family have, or have had, one form of dementia or another. I really wanted to explore what it…

— Emma Healey

I can't experience my brain because I'm inside of it. If you're imaging your brain, you can also find scary things. As…

— Don Ihde

Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for…

— Walter Kirn

When mum was diagnosed in 2004 there was a stigma attached to the condition and people didn't really talk about it. But…

— Angela Rippon

“He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate…

— Barry Lyga

“Someday, I suppose I’ll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I’ll probably be rocking fast, because I don’t know…

— Pat Summitt

“When someone you love has dementia, you too experience a form of anticipatory grief, but yours may extend over a longer period…

— Wolfelt PhD CT

Many physical illnesses are associated with depression and anxiety, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, stroke, kidney disease, lung…

— Liz Miller

We've had numerous people diagnosed with Alzheimer's who got better; they just come out of it; they are leading normal lives today.…

— Richard M. Schulze

The Alzheimer's Association is what I am passionate about. My grandfather had it. My mom has it. It's a horrible disease, and…

— Graham Shiels

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because…

— Patti Davis

Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle…

— Chaka Fattah

I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How…

— David Benioff

“Some residents will scoot back inside their rooms, because they think dementia is contagious. Or maybe it’s not, but you never know.…

— Hendrik Groen

If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,…

— Gary Bauer

There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged…

— Jean Dubuffet

“Years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair in the brightest spot in Amsterdam Park, next to the old wooden swings,…

— Etgar Keret

“ BIDEN : “ Look, folks ,” the president told the adoring crowd after his wife handed him the microphone, “you know,…

— Jake Tapper

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably…

— John Daniel

“Four things about learning how to care for someone with dementia are important to realize. Firstly, most family carers are unfamiliar with…

— Jennifer Ghent-Fuller

“The Familiar Squatter by Stewart Stafford Stranger at a ranting roundabout, Changeling deep in a cranial fog, An infant brooked with abandon,…

— Stewart Stafford

“In 2017, The Journal Stroke, released a bombshell paper that revealed the risk for stroke, Alzheimer’s, & dementia in general among people…

— David Perlmutter

I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at…

— Kenny Smith

“There is a duality to darkness known only to those who’ve been infected by its touch. Everyone knows the shadows: shallow, comfortable,…

— Darrell Drake