Mental Impairment Quotes

President Reagan doesn't retain very much of what comes his way on a given day.

A contract made by a person intoxicated, or insane, or grievously disordered by disease and so forth, or wholly dependent, by an infant or very aged man, or by an unauthorized party is invalid

Libertarians recognize the difference between adults and children, as well as differences between normal adults and adults who are insane or mentally hindered or retarded.

A pill to make you numb, a pill to make you dumb.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

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

My brain cells are dying in their trillions.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out?

When you become senile, you won't know it.

I know what you wanted to say, Do you think that electrocution rewired your brain to make you the retard that you are? You can say it, lady.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

In a longer term relationship, I don't know that the intoxication would add very much - it might even take away. You don't perform as well, get tired faster and lose your edge. It can also dull your senses, so you might not appreciate what's going on.

I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.

Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

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 defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

With Alzheimer's, recent memory is affected first. At the start, you count the memory loss in days, then hours - then in minutes. But there's also an insidious backward creep of deterioration.

Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.