Quotes tagged ‘Dementia’

(8 total)

“My problem, really, is I don’t remember I’m 70.”

“Uncle Fester: Dementia! What a beautiful name! Dementia: It means 'insanity.' Uncle Fester: My name is Fester. It means 'to rot.'”

— Paul Rudnick, Uncle Fester Addams, Christopher Lloyd, imdb.com

“My grandfather had dementia. He wasn't a racist. He thought I was his dead sister, but he wasn't a racist.”

— Larry David, Larry David, Larry David, imdb.com

“People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.”

— Don Rickles, esquire.com

“Kaylee: So, what happened? Another terrible brawl? Zoë: [smiling] Oddly enough, there was. Wash: Are you getting my wife into trouble? Mal: Wha—I didn't start it. I just wanted a quiet drink. Zoë: Funny sir how you always seem to find yourself in an Alliance-friendly bar come 'U' day... looking for…”

— Tim Minear, Joss Whedon, Kaylee Frye, Jewel Staite, imdb.com

“Do you ever just get down on your knees and thank God that you know me and have access to my dementia?”

— Bruce Kirschbaum, Sam Kass, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com

“Dementia, in a weird and somehow paralleled way, is a huge metaphor for life. The cryptic lessons that dementia taught you bring you back to the most basic building blocks of humanity. Life is messy and hard and nonsensical, but love is the only thing that makes sense of it all.”

— Sarah Scheidt, thoughtcatalog.com

“For your whole life, you have lived in a world that praised objective reality. Something is or something is not. But, when dementia knocks on the door of someone you love, you learn that subjectivity often wins. You don’t lie to that person, but you don’t always knock down their perceptions of reali…”

— Sarah Scheidt, thoughtcatalog.com