Cancer Quotes

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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning, and so on.”

Blood Cancer Pneumonia

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Comedian, Writer

“I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.”

Running Exercise Cancer

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Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini

Author, Physician

“It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.”

Names Cancer

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Kid Rock

Musician, Actor

“I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.”

Rocks Peace

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JM

Artist, Illustrator

“Two days prior to the Herrick operation I repaired a double cleft lip, resected a recurrent cancer of the mouth, corrected lop ears in a child, and closed a burn of the buttocks.”

Children Two Cancer

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.”

Thinking Dying Cancer

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.”

Struggle Kissing Cancer

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.”

Mean Cancer Blind

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“And then we were kissing. My hand let go of the oxygen cart and I reached up for his neck, and he pulled me up by my waist onto my tiptoes. As his parted lips met mine, I started to feel breathless in a new and fascinating way. The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I really liked my body, this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle, worth the chest tubes and PICC lines and the ceaseless bodily betrayal of the tumors.”

Letting Go Cancer Betrayal

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John Green

Author, YouTuber

“One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.”

Writing Wise Cancer

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JS

Jordan Sonnenblick

Author

“He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally. Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH.”

Cancer News Speech

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JH

Singer, Songwriter

“Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.”

Fighting Passion Cancer

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