Cancer Quotes

Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migr...

Democracy is cancerous, and bureaus are its cancer. A bureau takes root anywhere in the state, turns...

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking...

Everybody keeps talking about 'fighting' the cancer," he said, "everybody keeps telling me to fight ...

[Karen Lundegaard] was quite frail, debilitated by metastatic breast cancer, which she had long know...

I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to ...

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. W...

As a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Oncology put it: "What we must first remember is th...

Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody wh...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s ...

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know ...

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet.‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’‘Oh,...

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't ...

It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is alm...

Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful tha...

In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream...

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow...

No, we love war.War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment.“It's the mark of a ver...

On to some juicy French philosophical sex-killing murder-suicide cannibal thing. You?”“Still the con...

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer o...

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. Yo...

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating...

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all...

Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-base...

To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please ...

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith heale...

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionall...

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace...

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and ...

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did no...

Love"I'm in love with you," he said quietly."Augustus,"I said."I am," he said. He was staring at me,...

We are literally in the heart of Jesus," he said."I thought we were in a church basement, but we are...

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING ...

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING thing...

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. W...

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows h...

Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I d...

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer it...

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. ...

According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did...

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart ar...

I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince my...

Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have ...

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

You die in the middle of your life.

This is your war now.' I despised myself for the cheesy sentiment, but what else did I have?'Some wa...

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the sid...

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratula...

What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me....

But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

There is only one thing in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and t...

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true ...

the world wasn't made for us, we were made for the world

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was t...

Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.

Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that....

My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have ...

I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. Th...

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

It was easier to ignore the consideration of paternal genes then than it would be now. We did not th...

Anything that has a relationship with pleasure, we reject it. Eating, they talk about cholesterol; m...

Why should I have been surprised?Hunters walk the forestwithout a sound.The hunter, strapped to his ...

The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn't cure can...

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.

HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN,...

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left h...

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Cancer... the process of creation gone wild, I thought.

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?" Fat said. "There are worse diseases than cancer...

Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bo...

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She ...

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...