Dementia Death Quotes

#1. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

Andrea Lochen

#2. Whatever is not nailed down is mine." This is the motto of the exploiter. "Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down." This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future.

David Starr Jordan

#3. When you come from a family of ten children you learn very early on in life to stand up for yourself and hold your ground regarding the things you're passionate about.

Sufe Bradshaw

#4. The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer's art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

T. S. Eliot

#5. It doesn't upset me to think about dying. What upsets me is the idea of John being alone after his spell passes. The idea of one of us without the other. (p.127)

Michael Zadoorian

#6. Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#7. Well you know what they say. It's always raining somewhere.

Michael Monroe

#8. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.

Bob Ross

#9. Rewards are not an entitlement, they have to be deserved, they have to be earned.

Murad S. Shah

#10. Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#11. ... wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a way of fixing a point in time so that nothing can change, nothing can be rewritten, no one can leave.

Jonathan Miles