Dad Dementia Quotes

#1. I'm really close to my mom, but things with my dad have been different. He has dementia and watching him change, I've actually started to think that it's a purer state for people. Because he operates as if he's a child and everything is new, which seems more honest.

Blake Butler

#2. There are no signposts in the sea.

Vita Sackville-West

#3. Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.

Anthony De Mello

#4. I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

Emma Watson

#5. I guess she was a life line
Sewing our family fabric together
From me to dad to her
Gave me a sense of continuity
Especially when my daughter was born
As she was slipping away

Richard L. Ratliff

#6. Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us

Carl Sagan

#7. Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness.

Erik Valeur

#8. I'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.

Joe Mantegna

#9. Can I ... ?" There was a pause and my heart stuttered. "Can I just hold you? That's all ... that's all I want.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#10. I am the bringer of beef and the singer of sweet suppertime! Mine is the chicken and the gravy forever, nom nom!

Kevin Hearne

#11. If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

Rebecca Pidgeon

#12. The feeling of pain never leaves. With every beat of my heart, I am reminded that it remains. It festers within me like an infection. Life's antibiotic for pain associated with how we feel is communication.

Scott Hildreth

#13. Whereas some people's attitude suggested that perhaps they knew something you didn't, Mrs. Whiting's implied that she knew everything you didn't. She alone had been paying attention, so it was her duty to bring you at least partially up to speed.

Richard Russo

#14. Claire's cottage wasn't quite the same layout as his mother's, but it looked to be the same size. Daniel couldn't be sure - he'd have to see Claire's bedroom first. Internally again, Daniel laughed and then he sighed again. Did he just make a joke in his head and laugh at himself?

Allie Burke

#15. A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

James A. Belasco

#16. I'll always come to see you, all my life, Alyosha answered firmly.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky