Cancer Quotes

I finally understand. Cancer is not a gypsy curse. It's a huge smashing wave. It catches you and drags you out. And anybody can be spit back up, and anybody can drown. -The Lucky Place

~ Zu Vincent

...in addition to feeling sick and tired and feverish and nauseated, I also felt forgotten. And there was no easy cure for that.

~ Sarah Thebarge

A bad attitude from a chronic complaining employee is like a cancer, it will only spread and infect others. This can take your business down in a nanosecond. You must cut out the cancer and invite them to seek employment elsewhere. Quickly.

~ Beth Ramsay

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

~ Steve Maraboli

The luxury of relaxation ... is part of the healing process.

~ Shirley Corder

Jesus...remains in control of my circumstances, no matter the size of the waves.

~ Shirley Corder

The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...

~ Garth Ennis

I'm not really putting this very well. My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or Little-Known Facts About Love, or sappy tear-jerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind for Good, or whatever. And, unlike most books in which a girl gets cancer, there are definitely no sugary paradoxical single-sentence-paragraphs that you're supposed to think are deep because they're in italics. Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about sentences like this:The cancer had taken her eyeballs, yet she saw the world with more clarity than ever before.Barf. Forget it. For me personally, things are in no way more meaningful because I got to know Rachel before she died. If anything, things are less meaningful. All right?

~ Jesse Andrews

One day, when I thought I was alone, I prayed in church. While making this offering before the cross, a parishioner came up to me, put her arm around my shoulder and prayed, ‘Dear God, please heal Father Jim. And give me his cancer.’ I was incredulous. I looked at her, and then back to the Lord and quietly prayed, ‘If she insists, Lord, hear our prayer!’ Later I was able to pray, ‘Lord, rather than give my cancer to her, give her heart of love to me – the love that prompted her to deny her very self and pray in such a loving way.

~ Jim Willig

We live in truly unbelievable times. Autism is an epidemic in most westerncountries, western governments are nothing more than corrupt corporations, and corporations areroutinely suppressing information regarding the toxicity of many common household items. The resultis that many people are unnecessarily suffering from easily preventable developmental problems,sickness and cancer.

~ Steven Magee

As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, 'If your hair catches on fire while you're making a wish, does that mean it isn't coming true?

~ Sarah Thebarge

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

~ Gertrude B. Elion

Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.

~ Shirley Corder

Discouragement is the cancer of great things.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A situation in itself is not powerful, We bestow it with power by thinking overtime about it and discussing about it.

~ Sanchita Pandey

What issues sidetrack you from your mission to get well?

~ Shirley Corder

Cancer - a more or less permanent traffic jam in the body.

~ Andreas Moritz

The Lord chose to give me back my life, not because I deserved it, but because he had work for me to do.

~ Shirley Corder

There is a fine line between paranoia and sensibly caring for our already overburdened bodies.

~ Shirley Corder

With organization comes empowerment.

~ Lynda Peterson

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

~ Christie Cote

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

~ Billy Graham

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

~ John Green

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

Dreams are built around the word hello, but in the end fate only knows the word goodbye.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Each of us carries a sleeping tiger inside, and we can’t predict when that cat will wake, stretch, and sharpen its claws.

~ Holly Robinson

Bryan, I know you’ve interviewed a lot of caregivers—”“Too many,” Bryan shot back.She inched her chin up a notch. “I’m not your typical caregiver. I’m different.”Bryan laughed with no humor. “Yeah, I’ve heard that one before—okay, impress me, Delilah Walker. What exactly makes you different?

~ Josephine Harwood

She cleared her throat. “Bryan, I know you’ve interviewed a lot of caregivers—”“Too many,” Bryan shot back.She inched her chin up a notch. “I’m not your typical caregiver. I’m different.”Bryan laughed with no humor. “Yeah, I’ve heard that one before—okay, impress me, Delilah Walker. What exactly makes you different?

~ Josephine Harwood

Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance, Annie Wright's stroke.

~ Josephine Harwood

I’m smart in some ways- pretty good vocabulary, solid at math – but I am definitely the stupidest smart person there is… I was going to be the worst friend in the history of dying girls… Because I don’t really have a moral compass and I need to rely on (Earl) for guidance, or else I might accidentally become like a hermit or a terrorist or something. How fucked up is that.

~ Jesse Andrews

For the first time, I understood the ancients' need to find explanations for why things happen. It's a quintessential human imperative. Random is not emotionally satisfying. Therefore, lightning was the bolt from an angry god. Crop failure was punishment for failing to honor the gods with a fatted calf. The plague happened because you took the Lord's name in vain or coveted your neighbor's wife. Going to church regularly and praying could forestall illness. And on and on.

~ Alanna Mitchell

A fearful sob suddenly rises in my throat as I think of what it will be like without her, to not have her warm chest to lie against, to not have her kind face to look into, lost in a darkness without a mother to turn to and her here, daughterless.

~ Annie Fisher

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

~ John Green

Please don’t tell me you know just how I feel--you don't.

~ Shirley Corder

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

~ Richard Ford

HE LIKED TO COOK AND LAUGH AND SING, COULD START A FIRE WITH HIS HANDS, FIX THINGS THAT WERE BROKEN, AND EXPLAIN HOW TO LAUNCH THINGS INTO SPACE, BUT HE DIED WITHIN NINE MONTHS

~ Nicole Krauss

The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer.

~ J. Richard Singleton

[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.

~ David Mcraney

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid of most of the diseases.- Subodh Gupta , author 7 food habits for weight loss forever.

~ Subodh Gupta