Cancer Quotes - Page 25

• If a man dies of cancer in fear and despair, then cry for his pain and celebrate his life. The other man, who fought like hell and laughed in the end, but also died, may have had an easier time in his final months, but took his leave with no more humanity.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Pain, Men, Humanity

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

  Regina Brett

  Time Zones, Want, Firsts

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• The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions — which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

  Susan Sontag

  Civilization, White, Race

  'Partisan Review' Winter 1967, p. 57

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• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Running, Heart, Thinking

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• Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an ICU bed for such patients is a night that another patient with a genuine prognosis for recovery is denied such high-end care. Every dollar exhausted on patients who will never wake up again is a dollar not devoted to finding a cure for cancer.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Recovery, Night, Bed

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Thinking, Issues, Achievement

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Fighting, Thinking, Government

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• Welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you chicken pox whooping cough smallpox malaria TB heart disease cancer and so on unemployment hunger and so on train wrecks bus accidents plane crashes on-the-job injuries earthquakes floods droughts and so on heartbreak alcoholism and so on nightsticks prisons doors and so on they're laying for you the atom bomb and so on welcome baby it's your turn to live they're laying for you socialism communism and so on.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Baby, Jobs, Heart

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• Even if your difficult time comes at you out of the blue - like cancer - even those times, opens your heart to the magic and power of life, and gives you this inner commitment to live every moment.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Heart, Commitment, Blue

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.

  L. Neil Smith

  Jobs, Government, Promise

  "Of Pharaohs and Firearms". Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership Website, jpfo.org. 2012.

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• If you've been cryocrastinating, putting off signing up for cryonics "until later", don't think that you've "gotten away with it so far". Many worlds, remember? There are branched versions of you that are dying of cancer, and not signed up for cryonics, and it's too late for them to get life insurance.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, Dying, Too Late

  "Timeless Identity". lesswrong.com. June 3, 2008.

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• Every patient reacts a little differently, both biologically and psychologically. The only constant in cancer is inconstancy; the only certainty is a future of uncertainty, a truism for all of modern life but one made vivid by life-threatening illness.

  Jonathan Alter

  Modern Life, Littles, Vivid

  Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”

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• I spoke to a girl today who had cancer and we were talking about how this is such a hard thing for her, but it taught her a big lesson on who her friends are and so much about life. She's 18. And I was like, that's how I feel.

  Kim Kardashian

  Girl, Stupid, Talking

  "Kim Kardashian: my life as a brand" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We're on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer's and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.

  Douglas Brinkley

  Real, Medicine, Alzheimer's

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.

  Margaret Walker

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

  Christopher Hitchens

  People, Ends, Prove

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". Newsnight interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

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• The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

  Ellen Goodman

  People, Smoking, Tobacco Industry

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• The health dollar is very precious. When someone has such a bad condition as brain cancer, we know they're going to die and they're usually going to die within 12 months of diagnosis. They cost a lot of money to keep the patient alive for that period of time. Is it really worth it?

  Charles Teo

  Brain, Diagnosis, Months

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• The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.

  Jeff Dunham

  Kids, Laughing, Littles

  TheCelebrityCafe.com Interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Innocent, Pleasure

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• My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle's cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.

  Renata Adler

  Uncles, Grandmother, Age

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.62, New York Review of Books

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• I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

  Kiki Dee

  Scare, Months, Ifs

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• Once you are diagnosed with cancer, time changes. It both speeds up insanely and stops altogether.

  Eve Ensler

  Speed, Illness

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.9, Macmillan

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• I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

  Alice Childress

  Believe, Racism, People

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• Thanks to feminism, women can now acquire status in two ways: through marriage or their own achievements. Cure cancer or marry the man who does, either way society will applaud. Unless he marries into the British royal family, it doesn't work that way for men. Wives shed no glory on their husbands. Having tea with Nancy Reagan is an honor; having tea with Denis Thatcher is a joke.

  Katha Pollitt

  Husband, Men, Two

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