Cancer Quotes

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

Anger, Fire, Bitterness

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
Jim Valvano

Mind, Heart, Soul

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.
Nelson Mandela

Give, Stop, Somebody

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns

Hope, Depression, Loved

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Peace, Great, War

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
Kurt Vonnegut

Human, Find, Again

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes

Jealousy, Mental

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
Gilda Radner

Life, Live, Important

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
Michael Jackson

Children, Kids, Thousands

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.
Terri Clark

Family, Someone, Everyone

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry Pratchett

Alone, Brave, Old

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
Dave Pelzer

Victim, Mindset, Survivor

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

Growth, Ideology, Cell

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

Time, Live, Learn

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
Jim Valvano

Life, Time, Nothing

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Chuck Palahniuk

God, Give, Maybe

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.
Jennifer Aniston

Mother, Friend, Sister

Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
P. J. O'Rourke

Nice, Place, Cut

I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Women, Words, Thought

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman

Time, Challenge, Victory

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Jane Pauley

Goal, Illness, Mental

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze

Life, Future, Long

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Men, Jealousy, Die

I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.
Jim Valvano

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Arlen Specter

Heart, Far, Behind

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them.
Linus Pauling

Everyone, Support, Research

And I'm going to work as hard as I can... for cancer research and hopefully, maybe, we'll have some cures and some breakthroughs. I'd like to think I'm going to fight my brains out to be back here again next year for the Arthur Ashe recipient. I want to give it next year!
Jim Valvano

Work, Fight, Hard

But try if you can to support, whether it's AIDS or the cancer foundation, so that someone else might survive, might prosper, and might actually be cured of this dreaded disease.
Jim Valvano

Someone, Try, Else

Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.
John Simon

Stress, Put, Lead

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
Judy Collins

Understand, Talk, Actually

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