Deepak Chopra Quotes

No matter how many vitamins you take, how much Pilates, you'll lose your keys, your hair and your memory.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

I have a particular passion and focus on Alzheimer's and diseases of dementia. There's just so much scientifically that we don't know, and we can know.

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

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

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

Sometimes people ask me how old I am, and I have to stop and remember. I forget myself!

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.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.

The science supporting the relationship between carbohydrates and dementia is quite exciting, as it paves the way for lifestyle changes that can profoundly affect a person's chances of remaining intact, at least from a brain perspective.

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.

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.

If I really lose the rest of my memory, don't let my kids spend a lot of money to put me in an expensive care facility. If they treat me very well there, I will not remember it, and if they treat me badly I will not remember that either. So it really won't matter, will it?

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

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.

Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

As I get older and I get more of this dialogue and I lose more and more brain cells, it really does become the most difficult part of the job!