309 quotes found
“Disobey God and you are forgiven. Disobey Nature and you get disease.”
“Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a sid...”
“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.”
“Fear is the cancer”
“There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when th...”
“Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is t...”
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
“Well to be fair, I said, I mean she probably can't handle it. Neither can you, but she doesn't have to handle it. And you do.”
“I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didnt tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like...”
“Jesus didnt have to extend His love. He didnt have to think of me when He went up on that cross. He didnt have to rewrite my story from one of beauty to one of brokenness and create a whole new bra...”
“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”
“If Ive learned anything from facing death, it is that life is not meant to be survived. Life is the greatest adventure there is. And why stop your adventuring when someone says the end may be near?...”
“A rumor is a social cancer: it is difficult to contain and it rots the brains of the masses. However, the real danger is that so many people find rumors enjoyable. That part causes the infection. A...”
“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made...”
“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
“I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.”
“It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brothe...”
“But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue....No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. T...”
“Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where...”
“I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.”
