Isobelle Carmody Quotes

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

The older we get, the swifter time seems to pass and the quicker memories seem to fade.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

My memory is not that good anymore.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

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

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

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.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

My memory's pretty much gone.

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.

This is why Alzheimer's is such a terrible disease: the body of the person you love is there, but they've gone - your husband is gone - and they become your child, and you have to look after them as you would a child.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.

I've always been forgetful.

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

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.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.