Cancer quotations

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◆ We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

- Kristina Riggle99

◆ Fear is the cancer

- Simon Holt99

◆ Cancer. The word meant the same to me as tsunami or piranha. I had never seen them; I wasn't even quite sure what they were, but I knew they were bad and I knew in many cases they were deadly.

- Natalie Palmer99

◆ Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship.

- Matt Dunn99

◆ It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to.

- Steven Hall99

◆ This is the story of how Dad lived with his lung cancer. But it is much more. Through his illness and the miracles we experienced, I came to see that Dad's was not just a journey. It was a journey home. Home to God.

- Joseph M. Hanneman99

◆ If you say you can or you can't you are right either way

- Henry Ford99

◆ I'll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

- John Green99

◆ Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

- Pablo Neruda99

◆ Cancer seems a high price to pay for an innocuous-looking habit. You get into smoking and you are robbed of the last 25 years of your life. Some cocky souls will say, 'Ah yes, but they are the worst 25 years.' Nobody feels like that in a cancer ward. There are no cocky souls in a cancer ward. But there's a lot of pain, not just of the excruciating physical kind that they shoot you full of morphine to smother. There are a lot of tears. All round. It is hard to say goodbye to the people you love. And it's scary. Cancer wards have a way of knocking the cockiness out of you. And for what? Another cigarette?

- Tony Parsons99

◆ Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.

- Jane Smiley99

◆ I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.

- Pamela Bone99

◆ There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

- 99

◆ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of someone who can't afford an education?

- 99