Quotes About Cancer

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

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

Then Mason made an astonishing comment. He said to the girl, adamantly, in his slightly garbled and mumbly way, "You know, I used to have brain cancer. I was in a coma, and then I was here again." I had to close my eyes at the beauty of his understanding—that he was here again. He had woken up, as we are all called to do. I said, "You are a miracle.

The memories inside him tormented him like a cancer, yet he could not see them and know them for what they were.

It is not the darkness of shadows: one that follows you, haunts you, terrifies you. Instead, it consumes you, becomes you, weighs you down. It IS you. It is comforting. Familiar. I have walked with it. Eaten with it. Loved with it. Smiled with it. Yet I feel it destroying me. Like cancer. But I can't remove it. It stays inside of me, taunting me to kill it, myself, but it does not realize that this seduction keeps me alive.

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And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

I cannot defeat cancer. Nobody defeats cancer. There is no winning or losing. There is no surviving or not surviving. There are only coin flips: heads or tails; benign or malignant; weight loss or bloating; morphine or oxycodone; extreme rescue efforts or Do Not Resuscitate; live or die.

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.

I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me.

A society that destroys the environment that supports it, I would not consider to be intelligent life. It's like the cancer that ultimately kills itself by destroying the host it feeds on.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive.

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

Cancer changes your whole life.

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

So far, I am a cancer survivor, but 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.

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