309 quotes found
“In ten years time Ill be (dead) sixty.”
“Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.”
“The predominant cancer metaphor is war. We fight cancer, usually valiantly. We attack tumors and try to annihilate them and bring out our arsenals to do that, and so on. It's us against cancer. Thi...”
“It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.”
“When your physician says, you have two to four months to live because their medicine isnt working I hope you take a chance to build a relationship with God and pray that Jesus Christ/God/Holy Spiri...”
“All i have to offer is this: i hold a valid driver's license and I know the way to the hospital. I can hang curtains, flip a mattress, load a dishwasher. I can deliver a pizza, lend a steadying arm...”
“Once people knew about the cancer, I wouldn't be able to stop them from talking about Val every time they saw me. And then I would stop being me, because my time was something I could only buy at h...”
“I do not wish my anger and pain and fear about cancer to fossilize into yet another silence, nor to rob me of whatever strength can lie at the core of this experience, openly acknowledged and exami...”
“It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.”
“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 ...”
“PRAISE FOR 'THE JOURNEY HOME'Many saints are known and praised by all. We pray to them in litanies and celebrate their feast days. But the vast majority of holy men and women live heroic lives quie...”
“All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.”
“We live in the irradiated lazy indoor cancer society.”
“Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's ...”
“Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.”
“Hope for the best,brace yourself for the worst and no matter what youre faced with, make a plan to KEEP GOING!”
“Built on the insubstantial foundation of our feelings, the life we had created together seemed a figment of our imaginations that dissolved into fairy dust in the face of something real, and deadly...”
“The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.”
“Life in itself is a big classroom - so learn all the chapters of life well. This chapter of illness is but only one chapter. Learn whatever it has come to teach you and move on in life.”
“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...”
