Cancer Patients Quotes

“When you get sick you will be surprised by who steps up and who steps away. I can honestly say I did not think this would apply to me. I could not imagine that anyone in my family or circle of friends would not be there for me. Wrong!”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“It is exhausting explaining over and over again that yes, I am doing great and I feel fantastic, but I still cannot do the things I once did. My new normal with Cancer Related Fatigue.”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“I always try to stay positive, but right now I just want to scream and cry a little. I have an amazing support system here, but sometimes I feel like I can't cry or be mad because they think I'm not being positive.”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“Top question of the dying: "What made me sick?”
― Steven Magee

“I want you to get remarried after I die.”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“I am grateful for everything and every day, and that is no longer just words I feed myself from Post-it notes stuck to my mirror as positive affirmations.”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need

“Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.”
― Vikrmn, Guru with Guitar

“It felt—nearly twenty-five hundred years after Hippocrates had naively coined the overarching term karkinos—that modern oncology was hardly any more sophisticated in its taxonomy of cancer.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Caregiving leaves its mark on us. No matter what we do to prepare ourselves the hole left behind looms large.”
― Dale L. Baker, More Than I Could Ever Know: How I Survived Caregiving

“Believe in your prayers. Believe in the power of your faith and blessings of your near and dear ones. Their love serves as a balm, soothes your heart and heals your body.”
― Sanchita Pandey, Cancer to Cure

“Una de las convenciones menos estúpidas sobre el género de los chicos con cáncer es la convención del Último buen día, donde la víctima de cáncer se encuentra así misma con algunas horas inesperadas donde parece que el inexorable decaimiento ha mejorado, o cuando el dolor es soportable por al menos un momento. El problema, por supuesto, es que no hay manera de saber que ese buen día es tu último buen día. Entonces, es otro día.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When I look at my scars, they are my daily reminder that I have work to do ad it it the best work of my life - taking care of myself.”
― Kathryn White, Living to Thrive: a holistic guide to living with cancer

“A three-fold approach, reduction of tumor burden without harming the patient, re-regulating the cancer to convert to normal health tissue, and nourishing the patient's recuperative powers, will be the human and clinically effective cancer treatment of the new millennium.”
― Patrick Quillin, PhD, RD,CNS

“I was given fluid and another blood transfusion, after which I felt like I could conquer the world! This process would become my normal: chemo, get horribly sick, trip to Assessment, fluid, blood transfusion, feel better.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“I never let anyone see me cry or feel sorry for myself. Attitude and the will to live is so important during and after treatment that if you don't have a good attitude or a strong will to live, treatment doesn't work.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“Having cancer, fighting cancer, and beating cancer have been THE defining events in my life, and though it was the most terrifying, I know that it has changed me for the better, forever.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“Fighting the disease is hard enough, even when you are completely focused on just that. Extra time and effort spent worrying about the situation can be detrimental to your body's physical health.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“Cancer represents a very specific, emotional uniqueness of your body failing you, generally through no fault of your own. But please know that no matter how hard or bad you believe your situation to be, there is somebody out there who's got it worse.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“When I was initially diagnosed with cancer, I questioned God's reasoning for giving me such a debilitating disease. But then it dawned on me: He chose me to give this disease because He knew that I could handle it!”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“I had been looking forward to actually beginning to fight this disease, this foreign invader that had kidnapped my spirit and ransacked my body )like the Dothraki in Game of Thrones would have certainly done.)”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“It was in that moment that not only did I experience my lowest point through my cancer journey, but as I look back, I realize that I also experienced one of my most empowering.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“As it turned out, everyone knew that I had cancer. That is, everyone except me.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“To this day, one of my great regrets in life is that I did not deploy in 2013 with the group of men and women whom I spent so much time growing close to. I cherish the memories that I have while in uniform and have learned to understand that everything is in God's timing, not mine.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“Some of this is difficult to put into words and almost a little embarrassing, but can we became my identity for 18 months of my life. I didn’t have a conversation with anyone outside of my close circle of family or friends that didn’t revolve around having cancer or treating cancer.
-Kyle”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“She succumbed to the exact same cancer that I had been lucky enough to survive. Could this really be the only aspect of our experience that led to our differing outcomes...luck? My god luck? Her bad luck? Seems unfair, right? Well, it is.”
― Brett M. Cordes, Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease

“Do YOU want to be known as a cancer patient, or a cancer fighter? You got it. You know it. You can do it.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, If Cancer Can, You Too Can, Fight.

“While today may seem challenging, it’s not. Some people are visiting cancer hospitals for treatment. Their determination should demonstrate the opportunities you have today, they they hope one day they have too!” - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger, The Cancer Survivors Club: A Collection of Inspirational and Uplifting Stories

“While today may seem challenging, it’s not. Some people are visiting cancer hospitals for treatment. Their determination should demonstrate the opportunities you have today, which they pray one day they will have too!” - Chris Geiger”
― Chris Geiger, The Cancer Survivors Club: A Collection of Inspirational and Uplifting Stories