Cancer Quotes

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

John Diamond

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

Kenji Miyazawa

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.

Olivia Newton John

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.

Ingrid Bergman

Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.

Bible

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Alex Karras

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!

Charles Lamb

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Maya Angelou

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Marcel Proust

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

Susan Sontag

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is I've never felt better in my life.

Ronald Reagan

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Gilbert Adair

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

Nikolai Lenin

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.

W. H. Auden