Andrew Strauss Quotes

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

I am not an expert on time, or on cancer, or on life itself.

Time for me is double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last cancer relapse, but every day also brings me closer to the next cancer recurrence - and eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

There is nothing certain in a man's life but that he must lose it.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Life is an incurable disease.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

I think I definitely got scared by the second or third time a doctor told me I was dying.

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

My mother battled cancer for 12 years before losing her fight.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.