#cancer

One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. ↗

— John Green

#cancer #creatures #easy #either #else

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#chemotherapy #darkest #ever #friends #going

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. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#came #cancer #either #getting #guess

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cancer #climbing #doctors #early #elbow

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#absent #advances #although #awareness #been

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 side effect of dying. ↗

— John Green

#depression #dying #life #life

If there is a problem, and you don't say anything about it, it's like a cancer and it becomes bigger. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#anything #becomes #bigger #cancer #like

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#cure #fun #movies

Progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution, and it was designed to eat the Constitution, to progress past the Constitution. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#cancer #constitution #designed #eat #eating

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#cancer #destroy #fate #learn #left