Terry Pratchett Quotes

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

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

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

The president was madman Reagan who's got Alzheimer's and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.

I don't want to give up living, because I enjoy it so much, and I love working - I don't expect I'll ever have to stop. But Alzheimer's or something like that would render me pretty useless.

I don't know a great deal about Alzheimer's - just what it does.

My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.

A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

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

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

People with Alzheimer's deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!

The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.

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 a bit more time.

Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.

None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

The terror dementia sufferers must feel is unimaginable, but the techniques they use to hide their difficulties - the ducking and diving and keeping the world laughing - are perfectly understandable.

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.