Cancer Quotes - Page 35

• The odd thing is, that I wrote The Great Spring while I had cancer and it's not about cancer. It was after I was done with cancer that I wrote a book about it.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Spring, Book, Odd Things

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• In a way, the cancer became an ally because it stopped me from running around so much. I was able to settle down and write things I hadn't had a chance to before.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Running, Writing, Way

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Attitude, Negative

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2011.

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• Duality is a part of reality, and there is definitely winning and losing. If you don't think so talk to someone who has beaten cancer, talk to somebody who hasn't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

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• Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Responsibility, Deep Love

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I don't mean to be flippant about cancer - it was hard, it was tough and it was scary. Then my next manuscript was about cancer because I had a whole new topic to write about. And because I wrote, it didn't take over. Writing took the chaos out of cancer.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Mean, Scary

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• The first thing is how awful cancer was, the experience. When you first go through it, you're just trying to survive. But when I wrote about it, I really digested it. It was unbearable but I had practice behind me.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Practice, Trying, Awful

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Bears

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• There are whole states where people [with addiction or mental health issues] can't get to a doctor. If that were true of pancreatic cancer, if that were true of heart disease, if that were true of diabetes, we'd all understand that it made no sense at all. And yet we somehow approach mental health from a very different standard.

  Newt Gingrich

  Heart, Issues, Doctors

  "Gingrich, Kennedy Take On Opioid Addiction - The KHN Conversation". Interview with Shefali Luthra, khn.org. July 7, 2016.

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• My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Real, Views, Cells

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• Marijuana makes the best bio-diesel fuel on the planet, so it can make you energy. It grows 15 feet a summer, so it's a renewable resource. It makes better paper than wood does. It makes clothing. Medical-wise, it's stopping seizures, it's working for post-traumatic stress, they're even finding that it's curing cancer in certain cases. I mean, this is a remarkable plant. Now, for those that smoke it recreationally, to feel good, what's wrong with that? That's mental health.

  Jesse Ventura

  Summer, Wise, Stress

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The comfort of that lifestyle began to eat away at me like a cancer almost. It began to rob me of my joy and my faith. It kind of robbed me of my purpose.

  Dominic Balli

  Joy, Comfort, Purpose

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

  Lothar Hirneise

  Spiritual, Survival, Purpose

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• There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Writing, Ideas, Phrases

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• I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last century. There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing patients, treating patients or providing patients with psychic solace or pain relief.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Pain, Thinking, Psychics

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• My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Breathing, Three

  Meghan O'Rourke (2011). “The Long Goodbye: A Memoir”, p.14, Penguin

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• It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

  Lance Armstrong

  Children, Bravery, Cynical

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• That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

  John Green

  War, Ends, Cures

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

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• I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

  Patrick Swayze

  Smoking, Pancreatic Cancer

  "Patrick Swayze Opens Up About Cancer Battle, Blames Smoking". Interview with Barbara Walters, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

  Allyson Schwartz

  People, Smoking, Effort

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• It ain't like we're curing cancer or anything, we're watching basketball.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball

  "One-on-One: Charles Barkley talks LeBron, politics, Auburn". Interview with Nick Friedell, sports.yahoo.com. December 11, 2008.

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• By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mother, Children, Father

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• How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Self, Sickness

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'The Convalescent'

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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Fate, Thinking, Achievement

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.

  Amy Lowell

  Writing, Progress, Asking

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