Collection : 60 Inspirational Alzheimer’s Quotes And Alzheimer Sayings
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Looking for quotes about Alzheimer’s? We have rounded up some of the best quotes collection of Alzheimer quotes, sayings, captions, poems, messages, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to empathize with people dealing from Alzheimer disease and give them strength in the enduring times.
Alzheimer’s is a progressive brain disorder that takes away memory and eventually the ability to do basic tasks. It’s a very sad, heartbreaking and helpless condition to see your loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and see his/her world turn upside down.
Feeling your own memories slip away or watching a friend or family member go further and further into the disease can leave you feeling alone. These inspirational Alzheimer’s quotes by people living with the disease, caregivers, or their loved ones might uplift your spirits and encourage you to deal with the situation with more wisdom and patience.
Alzheimer’s Quotes And Sayings
“Alzheimer’s caregivers are heroes.”- Leeza Gibbons Alzheimer’s Disease Quotes
“We remember their love when they can no longer remember.” Alzheimer’s Quotes
“Man’s memory shapes its own Eden within.” – Jorge Luis Borges
“Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer’s.”- Jerry Stiller
“They may not be able to remember who we are but they feel us just the same.” – Amanda Dillion Alzheimer Quotes
“To put it simply our brain span should match our lifespan.”- Meryl Comer
“I think I’m getting a little bit of Alzheimer’s. Just a little.”- Christopher Walken
“Jewish Alzheimer’s is forgetting everything except a grudge.”- Maureen Lipman
“Alzheimer’s disease is death before death, and I’m terrified of it.”- Joey Comeau Alzheimer Quotes Inspirational
“If you want to avoid Alzheimer’s disease, sleep 8 hours a night.”- Deepak Chopra
“One of the hardest things you will ever have to do, my dear, is to grieve the loss of a person who is still alive.”
“To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.”- Tia Walker
Although your loved one may not remember you or might do things that frustrate you, this is the time when he or she needs you the most. – Angie Nunez Merryman Alzheimer quotes mom
“Though those with Alzheimer’s might forget us, we as a society must remember them.” Loving Someone WIth Alzheimer’s Quotes
“People with Alzheimer’s deserve to be seen, so that we can find a cure!”- Julianne Moore
“Alzheimer’s disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.”- Patti Davis
“We’re really a composite of our life experiences – memory layered upon memory and Alzheimer’s steals that away.” – Meryl Comer Quotes About Alzheimer
“Alzheimer’s usually comes later than AIDS, but I decline to call that progress.”- Mason Cooley
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”- Sigmund Freud
“The person who has Alzheimer’s knows that pieces of the puzzle are missing, and they are terrified.” Alzheimer’s Quotes For Family
Alzheimer’s is one of the cleverest thief, because she not only steals from you, but she steals the very thing you need to remember what’s been stolen. – Jaord Kintz Alzheimer’s Sayings
“The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.”- Terry Pratchett
There are two types of people in this world, those who would take an Alzheimer’s patient on a joy ride and those that would say it was a waste of gas. Which one are you.?
“Do you know what Irish Alzheimer’s is? It’s when you forget everything but your grudges.”- Dana Gould
“I think the best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.”- Terry Pratchett
“At the moment I’m just falling, falling…just falling as it were, I think of things and then they go away forever.”
“Never let the brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s.”- George Carlin
“To love a person is to learn the song in their heart, and sing it to them when they have forgotten.” – Arne Garborg Alzheimer’s Quotes For Caregivers
“I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer’s. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.”- Joan Rivers
“You can’t converse with Alzheimer’s sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.”- Kevin Whately
“Alzheimer’s disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.”- Gregory Petsko
“Alzheimer’s… it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.”- Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook Famous Quotes Alzheimer’s Disease
“I’m in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer’s, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.”- Marcia Wallace
“The thing about Alzheimer’s is that it’s sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.”- Lucinda Williams Alzheimer Quotes Images
“It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.”- Terry Pratchett
“I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wonder to myself – Who are they then?”- Bob DeMarco
“I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.”- George Carlin
“The great tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.”- P. D. James
“It is a strange, sad irony that so often, in the territory of a disease that robs an individual of memory, caregivers are often the forgotten.” – Karen Wilder Positive Quotes About Alzheimer’s
“There is a version of Alzheimer’s which is early onset Alzheimer’s. And it’s – it’s horrible, because people do get it in their 50s and 60s. And it’s terrible.”- Patti Davis
“Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.”- David Hyde Pierce
“Ronald Reagan’s well documented final battles with Alzheimer’s disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.”- Bill Jenkins
“Each form of Alzheimer’s disease should perturb different brain networks and so influence the concentration of different proteins that can be measured in the blood.”- Leroy Hood
“I intend to live the remainder of the years God gives me on this earth doing the things I have always done.” — Ronald Reagan
“Caring for an Alzheimer’s patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-being of the people giving care, just as the disorder consumes its victims.”- Leeza Gibbons
“People do not realize that Alzheimer’s is not old age. It is a progressive and fatal disease and staggering amounts of people develop Alzheimer’s every day.”- Melina Kanakaredes
“Alzheimer’s, while a horrible shroud that keeps out so many joys of life, also blanketed away the aggressive and shrill dimensions of modern life.” — Rick Steves
“People think it’s a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer’s. But in my mother’s case, it’s different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she’s happy.”- Amy Tan
“It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.”- Terry Pratchett
“Alzheimer’s is literally killing us, and the only way to fight this ‘crime’ is through a groundswell of people who continue to raise their voices and funds to ensure it gets the attention it deserves.”- Tess Gerritsen
“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.”- Patti Davis
“You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It’s the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well.”- Mehmet Oz
“Alzheimer’s is brutal. I mean, it’s associated with losing your memory, but you don’t just forget who people are; you also forget how to talk, how to eat, how to do everything. That’s hard to wrap your head around until you actually see it.” — Seth Rogen
“I hate Alzheimer’s. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They’re gone. They are gone.”- Pat Robertson
“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.”- Jeffrey Kluger
“What really scares me is Alzheimer’s or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren’t so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it’s as good as it ever was.”- Stephen King
“You have to be patient with [Alzheimer’s]. Once you understand that it’s a medical condition, you become a little more compassionate. You get less frustrated.” — Kim Campbell
“I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew – because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer’s. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.”- Bob DeMarco
“Alzheimer’s is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.”- David Perlmutter
“I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer’s disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn’t because it was what I wanted to do.” – Melody Beattie
“As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer’s because it attacks the two things most central to a writer’s craft – language and memory, which together make up an individual’s identity. Alzheimer’s makes a new character out of a familiar person.” – Charlie Pierce Alzheimer’s Quotes Dad
“Alzheimer’s disease is never an ‘accident’ in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God’s sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer’s, this means God’s unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
“Competition got me off the farm and trained me to seek out challenges and to endure setbacks; and in combination with my faith, it sustains me now in my fight with Alzheimer’s disease.” “I’d wake up in the morning and I would think, ‘Where am I? ‘ I’d have to gather myself. – Pat Summitt
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Ananya Bhatt
I am Ananya a Graduate from Holmes College Sydney. I am a professional speaker and I love motivating people and inspire them to pursue their dreams. I have been an active contributor to The Random Vibez from last 2 years. Sharing quotes, proverbs, and sayings of great authors to touch people’s lives to make it better.
