Anne Wojcicki Quotes

You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

All diseases run into one, old age.

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

No one is so old that he cannot live yet another year, nor so young that he cannot die today.

Who knows how long I have got left. I could be like Bernard Hopkins.

Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn't know when. But now I knew it acutely.

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 don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty.

We don’t have a right to die; we have a duty to die.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

My God. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself.... Since the alternative [to living with Alzheimer's Disease] is being dead, I am quite happy where I am.

You never think about your own mortality. At least not until your back gives way when you're 40.

One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

We all live in this little bubble that we just expect to live forever and I think those of us that have been with people battling cancer, you realise, actually, this surrounds us everywhere we go.

I will be happy if I am 60 because I was not supposed to be 60.

I really want to live longer. It's a goal of mine.

That's the worst health condition you can have, not being alive.

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.