Cognitive Impairment Quotes

I probably went all the way to junior high school before a school doctor told me that I was 'dyslexic.'

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

It's always been my weakness that my concentration tends to go when I get into scrappy frames.

When people fall in deep distress, their native sense departs.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

They've lost their minds.

Consciousness is a disease.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

I remember saying things, but I have no idea what was said. It was generally a friendly conversation.” —Associated Press reporter Jack Sullivan, attempting to recount a 3 A.M. exchange we had at a dinner party and inadvertently describing the past ten years of my life.

Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now.

There is two different Donald Trumps. There is the Donald Trump of the '90s... Now you've got this other one. The post-dementia Donald Trump who just loves picking fights because, I think, he's a lonely man.

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.

It doesn't take science to know that when you have head-to-head collisions, there's going to be some effect.

Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men's minds are also injured by them.

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.

The thing you don't realise is that every time you head the ball, your brain shakes. Every single time. Have you ever headed a ball badly and seen stars for a couple of seconds? That's your brain shaking. Let's be honest: that can't be healthy, can it?