John Goodman Quotes

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.

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

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.

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.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

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.

My memory's pretty much gone.

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.

I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.

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

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

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.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

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

My memory's not too good.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

The memory loss made me jittery at times.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

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

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

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