Cancer Quotes

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

These are cancer victims and survivors who are close to me.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind supports the body too.

Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.

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

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

During chemo, you''re more tired than you''ve ever been. It''s like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you''re out. You don''t know how you''ll answer the door when your groceries are delivered. But you also find that you''re stronger than you''ve ever been. You''re clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it''s instantaneous.

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.

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

Cancer is a word, not a sentence.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

Never, never, never give up.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

Hope is grief''s best music.

Hope is the physician of each misery.

Oh, my friend, it''s not what they take away from you that counts - it''s what you do with what you have left.

Once you choose hope, anything''s possible.

It''s not the years in your life that count. It''s the life in your years.

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.