#cancer

Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #much #show #than #tv

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a death sentence, no-one would even mention the word. ↗

— Laura Linney

#cancer #death #even #evolved #grandmother

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#bother #cancer #courageous #defeated #did

I didn't know anything about breast cancer when I got it. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#anything #breast cancer #cancer #got #i

I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there. ↗

— Pamela Bone

#death #euthanasia #right-to-die #death

Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will. ↗

— A.S. King

#death #life #death

It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#death #death

Education doesn't make you smarter. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#education

A trip to the cancer unit of any pediatric hospital will tell you that the Law of Attraction doesn't work. Some angels are so bright, brave and valiant that God gave them the hardest lives when they chose to come to earth. They don't need to pray to be saved because they already are. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #cancer-patients #children #circumstances #faith

It's like they say about soldiers coming back from war. People all around you are dying. Really dying, Eric. You go in for a week's chemotherapy and you're in a ward with people who are really, actually dying, there and then and doing their best to come to terms with it. When the week's up, you go home and you see your family and your friends and everything's normal and familiar. It's too much. You think - one world can't possibly hold both these lives and you feel like you're going to go crazy when you realise the world is that big and it can fill with the most terrible things whenever it wants to. ↗

— Steven Hall

#chemotherapy #remission #sickness #family