Sam Taylor-Johnson Quotes

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

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.

Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.

I wrote 'A Boy and His Soul' that talks about how my mother had lupus and my dad dying of a heart condition.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

Cancer is just one little word but, when you hear it, it turns your whole life upside down.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

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.

When a person has cancer, the whole family really suffers with her.

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

I'm alive and I want to keep living.

I had to tell Dad, 'It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith'. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

Cancer is too real, and too awful, and I can't make it good or magical. I couldn't even read a book where a character had cancer, for a while... But now I've reached a point where I don't think about cancer nonstop anymore, and sometimes I worry about that - I'm going to forget what I went through; I'm going to forget how horrible it was.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.