309 quotes found
“Jealousy... is a mental cancer.”
“Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.”
“Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatura...”
“My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.”
“The standard treatments for cancer are not meant to heal, but to destroy.”
“In the community of living tissues, the uncontrolled mob of misfits that is cancer behaves like a gang of perpetually wilding adolescents. They are the juvenile delinquents of cellular society.”
“The cure of even one solid cancer in adults, Farber knew, would singularly revolutionize oncology. It would provide the most concrete proof that this was a winnable war.”
“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is consequential because frequent release of cort...”
“Love and laughter are stronger than cancer.”
“The "I love you"s are exchanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.”
“I love you"s are exhanged excessively under our roof. Cancer teaches you how important and critical that is.”
“You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.”
“In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the ent...”
“Always find the funny.”
“He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.”
“I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all a...”
“Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.”
“Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.”
“You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.”
“Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, "Gu...”
