Cancers quotes compilation. As an entrepreneur, you know that cancer is a big word. It is something that we often don’t want to think about, but the truth is that 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer in their lifetime. So whether you have been personally affected by cancer, or you just want to be better equipped to support someone who is going through it, I hope this post will help. Within these walls of text, you will find wisdom from survivors, caregivers, and doctors. Cancer is ugly, but the way we respond to it can be beautiful. I invite you to read on and gain some insight into this horrible disease.

The best cancer quotes

1. Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast or fast like a machete in the neck. — Warsan Shire

2. Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. — Theodore Roosevelt

3. I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man. — Renato Dulbecco

4. The only reason to have a positive mental attitude is that it makes life better. It doesn’t cure cancer. — Molly Ivins

5. The truth is like sunlight: It causes cancer. — J. Richard Singleton

6. He was one of the few people who had spoken to me as though his words were not rocks and I was not glass. — Meredith Norton, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting

7. So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer. — Norman Mailer

8. Please don’t preach at me–I feel bad enough already. — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

9. He was one of the few people who had spoken to me as though his words were not rocks and I was not glass. — Meredith Norton, Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting

10. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. — Steve Ballmer

11. I think of stress as the creator of cancer and heart attacks, like a tiny little ball you feed. I believe that one of the reasons I’ve never got ill is that I’m not stressed. — Simon Cowell

12. Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more. — Stephen Hawking

13. The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. — Vladimir Nabokov

14. ‘all the seeming ”coincidences” …. were actually God catching me in his arms.’ — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

15. Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn

16. I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn’t being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other’s sure to. — Truman Capote

17. Like millions of others, I have been plagued by the devastating effects of cancer hitting not one, but multiple members of my family. — Tom Delonge

18. Our lie is like a cancer that’s spread to every single area of our lives. — Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

19. Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: ‘No, we are watching back–to–back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat. — Tina Fey

20. I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. — Melissa Etheridge

21. God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me. — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

22. When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too. — Terri Clark

23. I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good. — Tommy Chong

24. The all–encompassing cure for cancer, heartbreak, irrationality, drug addiction, and every other ailment that plagues humanity?Fire. — V.K. McAllister, Inevitable Ascension

25. My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed. — Seann William Scott

26. Jesus…remains in control of my circumstances, no matter the size of the waves. — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

27. Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart. — Simon Wood, The One That Got Away

28. Cancer may have blindsided you, but it didn’t blindside God.~ Strength Renewed — Shirley Corder

29. I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man. — Renato Dulbecco

30. When I was a kid, I never went to Disneyland. My ol’ man told me Mickey Mouse died in a cancer experiment. — Rodney Dangerfield

31. Breast cancer is not just a woman’s issue–it affects all of us: the brothers, husbands, fathers, children and friends. — Ralph Lauren

32. The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. — Vladimir Nabokov

33. In God we trust. All others [must] have data.–Bernard Fisher — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

34. Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima, The Temple of Dawn

35. When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic. — Sofia Vergara

36. One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions. — Robert Shea

37. Please don’t preach at me–I feel bad enough already. — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

38. Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse. — Patrick Swayze

39. When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic. — Sofia Vergara

40. Cancer’s like the ultimate excuse. Who’s gonna say, ‘Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?’ ‘Hey, I got cancer. I can’t be there.’ It’s the ultimate eraser. — Melissa Etheridge

41. Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move. — Yusuf Hamied

42. I don’t inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can’t not hold one. — Woody Allen

43. Since cancer is an anaerobic growth, enhancing aerobic metabolism in a cancer patient is like shining daylight on a vampire. — Patrick Quillin

44. Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it’s serious, but it’s not the end–all. — Melissa Etheridge

45. God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn’t always answer the way we want him to. — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

46. Fear is the cancer — Simon Holt, The Devouring

47. I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. — Patrick Swayze

48. There are times when we find ourselves pitching downwards, out of control. Yet God is always nearby… — Shirley Corder, Strength Renewed: Meditations for Your Journey through Breast Cancer

49. In God we trust. All others [must] have data.–Bernard Fisher — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

50. Depression, the Cancer that gnaws at your Body, Mind and Soul. — Marlene Davis

Conclusion

We hope that these quotes have helped to provide some inspiration and comfort to those dealing with cancer. Whether it’s your own diagnosis, a loved one’s diagnosis or just a way of learning more about this difficult topic, we hope that these words have been helpful. No matter the situation, it is important to remember that there is hope and that there are people out there who care about and want to help.