Cancer Quotes - page 2

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.' (Michael N. Castle)
Can't is the cancer of happen. View quote
Charlie Sheen
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. View quote
Dave Grohl
All illegal narcotics are medicinal. Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it, with little or no side effects if used as directed. Life's temporary for a reason, it gets boring after awhile. You should be inventing new drugs is what you should be doing! Newer, crazier drugs... and more holes, that's what you ladies need! View quote
Doug Stanhope
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. View quote
Petrarch
Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? [audience yells "No"] Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? 'Cause I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day. View quote
George Carlin
McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer. View quote
Robert Downey Jr.
When in an organism there are cancer cells, they have to be removed, not helped because they're "so young" and "so creative." View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
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. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied. View quote
Norman Mailer
[On cancer] One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on -where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month - it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal. (Jennifer Beals)
Welcome baby, It's your turn to live, They lie in wait 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, work accidents, Earthquakes, floods, droughts, and so on. Heartbreak, alcoholism, and so on. Nightsticks, prison doors, and so on. They lie in wait for you, the atom bomb, and so on. Welcome baby, It's your turn to live. They lie in wait for you, socialism, communism, and so on. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
The cancer of time is eating us away. View quote
Henry Miller
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. View quote
Henry Miller
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all. View quote
Ornette Coleman
The Bucket List is a movie about two old codgers who are nothing like people, both suffering from cancer that is nothing like cancer, and setting off on adventures that are nothing like possible. I urgently advise hospitals: Do not make the DVD available to your patients; there may be an outbreak of bedpans thrown at TV screens. View quote
Roger Ebert
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. On being a high-profile social smoker. View quote
Kate Moss
Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
My nutritionist read my pathology report and said, "There's only one way you can beat your cancer." "What's that?" "You have to find out what caused it. View quote
Kathy Acker
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore. View quote
Melissa Etheridge
Don't ask God to cure cancer & world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space & fixing the weather for your barbecue. (Richard Dawkins)
Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution. View quote
Uri Geller
Having breast cancer is massive amounts of no fun. First they mutilate you; then they poison you; then they burn you. I have been on blind dates better than that. View quote
Molly Ivins
On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done. View quote
Molly Ivins
That smile could end wars and cure cancer. View quote
John Green (author)