People With Cancer Quotes

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

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

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

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible

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.

Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me…having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

Beautiful people do not just happen
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.