Age carries all things away, even the mind.
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
We notice that the mind grows with the body, and with it decays.
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.
Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.
