Quotes about Cancer and Life

Hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis, and cancer were all found to result from the erratic propensities of a past life. Votes: 2

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on. Votes: 2

My philosophy, don't let cancer ruin your life. You get up every day and use what you have and what time you have left. Votes: 2

When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste. Votes: 2

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties. Votes: 2

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it. Votes: 2

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is. Votes: 2

I wish I could never spend another second talking about cancer and all it does to everyone it surrounds, but unfortunately, that cannot be because of my life. Votes: 2

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful. Votes: 2

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life. Votes: 2

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life. Votes: 2

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. Votes: 2

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible. Votes: 2

When my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1991, I asked him if he had any regrets, and he said no. I was a burnt-out litigation solicitor in my thirties, hating my life, and his cancer made me re-evaluate it all. Votes: 2

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy. Votes: 2

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills. Votes: 2

The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's? Votes: 2

My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer. Votes: 2

Cancer changes your whole life. Votes: 0

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life. Votes: 0

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer. Votes: 0

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer. Votes: 0

There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection. Votes: 0

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. Votes: 0

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. Votes: 0

Modern society - everyone thinks getting cancer is a normal aspect of life. Votes: 0

My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that, Votes: 0

Cancer is cancer. I've got a great life if I can just stay alive. Votes: 0

If you don't have cancer, cherish life. If you do, cherish it even more Votes: 0

Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself. Votes: 0

Once cancer happens it changes the way you live for the rest of your life. Votes: 0

did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer. Votes: 0

To faith doubt is a sin, to science a virtue, to love a cancer and to life, suicide Votes: 0

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers. Votes: 0

If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to. Votes: 0

Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life. Votes: 0

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing. Votes: 0

I held the generous, strong, beautiful hand of my first wife Cassie as ovarian cancer took her life much too soon. Votes: 0

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life Votes: 0

My cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life. Votes: 0

Be gone, sorrow, sickness, wheelchairs, and cancer! Enough of you, screams of fear and nights of horror! Death, you die! Life, you reign! Votes: 0

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. Votes: 0

I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer. Votes: 0

When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life. Votes: 0

I was thrilled to support the Teenage Cancer Trust while celebrating the music of The Who - a band that changed my life. Votes: 0

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon's knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations. Votes: 0

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her. Votes: 0

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities. Votes: 0

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn. Votes: 0

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were. Votes: 0

Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live. Votes: 0

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated. Votes: 0

I will be a role model for cancer patients for the rest of my life. But you know what? When I was getting chemo, those people inspired me. Votes: 0

Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life. Votes: 0

I don't like life that much. It's not that big a deal for me... I don't want to know I have cancer till it's visible to the naked eye. Votes: 0

Wanna move out the hood and defeat that cancer I ask how she stay on her feet like dancers How she keep on adding paint to a life-size canvas. Votes: 0

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff. Votes: 0

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either. Votes: 0