Top 30 Cancer Quotes

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Cancer is a horrible disease that takes too many people. However, there is still hope. With that in mind, check out the top 30 cancer quotes.

#30 – 20. Cancer Quotes

30. We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair

29. Optimism is the foundation of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler

28. We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell. – Lance Armstrong

27. Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Winston Churchill

26. When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

25. Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway. – Emory Austin

24. You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It’s a mindset. – Dave Pelzer

23. Cancer is a word, not a sentence. – John Diamon

22. You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have – Cayla Mills

21. We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. – Winston Churchill

20. 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

#19 – 10. Cancer Quotes

19. What does not kill us makes us stronger. – Friedrich Nietzsche

18. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy. – Felicia Hemans

17. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa

16. Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. – Ingrid Bergman

15. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at a time of challenge and controversy. – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

14. Cancer affects all of us, whether you’re a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient. –Jennifer Aniston

13. I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. – J.B.S. Haldane

12. 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

11. 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

10. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

#9 – 1. Cancer Quotes

9. Hope is the physician of each misery. – Irish Proverb

8. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do – Eleanor Roosevelt

7. The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. – C.C. Scott

6. If I had given up everything that my life was about … I’d let cancer win before it needed to. – Elizabeth Edwards

5. 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 – Lance Armstrong

4. 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

3. I don’t think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer. – Cindy Crawford

2. Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. – Jim Valvano

1. There is no hope unmingled with fear, no fear unmingled with hope. – Baruch Spinoza

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