#cancer

In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #sixty #death

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#death #life #death

It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.' 'Why are you saying that?' 'She might need permission to die, Cal.' 'I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#cancer #death #family #sad #death

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cell #growth #ideology #sake

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

No, we love war. War. Starvation. Plague. They fast-track us to enlightenment. “It's the mark of a very, very young soul,” Mr. Whittier used to say, “to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.” We have always loved war. We are born knowing that war is why we're here. And we love disease. Cancer. We love earthquakes. In this amusement-park fun house we call the planet earth, Mr. Whittier says we adore forest fires. Oil spills. Serial killers. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#plague #starvation #war #love

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #support-group #tfios #state

If you say you can or you can't you are right either way ↗

— Henry Ford

#faith #inspirational #motivational #positive-attitude #positive-thinking

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#bore #cancer #illness #like #other

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#ask #cancer #changed #day #everybody