Cognitive Loss Quotes

I had to learn to walk again, talk again, think again.

My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.

The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.

My father, who suffered from hardening of the arteries, was diagnosed as having that tragic thief of the mind, Alzheimer's.

Finally I'm becoming stupider no more.

Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.

The one thing I was really good at was being spontaneous. I was quick-witted. I lost that with my stroke.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

Since being on television, I have felt that my brain is degenerating.

I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Age steals away all things, even the mind.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

I want to leave this sport with a little bit of my brains left.