Best Dementia Quotes
54 Dementia quotes by 44 unique authors
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Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most…
— Geoff Mulgan
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Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to…
— Kevin Whately
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Not all activities are equal in this regard. Those that involve genuine concentration—studying a musical instrument, playing board games, reading, and dancing—are associated with a…
— Norman Doidge
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Not me," said Orion cheerily. "I'm just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say ,young fairy lady, they're running wild in your…
— Eoin Colfer
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Oh, I'm crazy all right. I do have plenty of psychoses. Multiple personality, delusional dementia, OCD. I've got them all, but most of all, I'm…
— Eoin Colfer
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Dementia was like a truth serum.
— Amy Tan
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Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where…
— Louis de Bernieres
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I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How could you fear…
— David Benioff
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What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for…
— Cormac McCarthy
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There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to…
— Glen Duncan
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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You…
— Jodi Picoult
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I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me…
— J.A. Redmerski
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Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as…
— Walter Kirn
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My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition,…
— Rose George
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My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.
— Paul Coffey
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We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of…
— James Nesbitt
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Sundown is often the worst time of day for people with dementia. They can become restless and difficult.
— Laurie Graham
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Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just…
— Laurie Graham
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My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but…
— Laurie Graham
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None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.
— Laurie Graham
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The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the…
— Laurie Graham
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Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
— Julie Bishop
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Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of…
— Julie Bishop
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Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.
— Julie Bishop
Who Wrote These Dementia Quotes
44 authors contributed a total of 54 Dementia Quotes, led by these top contributors: