Dementia Quotes

“We continually move backward and forward in time as we use our stories to describe who we were, who we are, and what we hope we will become. Storytelling”
― John Swinton, Dementia: Living in the Memories of God

“Who am I? This or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, And before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling? . . . Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!2 Bonhoeffer’s question “Who am I?”
― John Swinton, Dementia: Living in the Memories of God