Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Cancer

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty.
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) British Essayist, Poet

We “need” cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.
Gilbert Adair (1944–2011) Scottish Film Critic, Novelist

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American Writer, Philosopher

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things—whether health or a car or an old sense of self—has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
Lance Armstrong (b.1971) American Professional Racing Cyclist

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist

Peace of mind makes the body healthy, but jealousy is like a cancer.
The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
Lance Armstrong (b.1971) American Professional Racing Cyclist

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more “manhood” to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
Alex Karras (1935–2012) American Football Star, Actor, Wrestler

Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman (1915–82) Swedish Actor

Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
W. H. Auden (1907–73) British-born American Poet, Dramatist

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
John Cheever (1912–82) American Novelist, Short-story Writer

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) British Biologist, Geneticist

Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is I’ve never felt better in my life.
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American Head of State

Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer
Warren Beatty (b.1937) American Film Actor, Director, Producer

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian Revolutionary Leader

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
Ingrid Bergman (1915–82) Swedish Actor

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