Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

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

My thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.

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

Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

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

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.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

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

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

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.

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.

[General William Tecumseh] Sherman is gone in the head.

If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.

People are fragile. Our brains are fragile and you can only abuse them for so long.