Quotes About Being Diagnosed With Cancer

#1. Being diagnosed with cancer really opened my eyes to the fact anyone can have it and that even though we think we have control over everything in our lives, we don't.

Sheryl Crow

#2. I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout.

Terry Tempest Williams

#3. I don't believe in love at all, really. But lust ... is alive and well.

Lisa Desrochers

#4. Landscape is my religion.
... God in a green legend, I lean over the pool
In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood
Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches
And floored with a skin of water.

Norman MacCaig

#5. The laugh count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.

David Edward

#6. I don't like bands who would play music like Code. I mean I hate most bands with emotional singing parts (I adore metal singing like Iron Maiden though!)

Mat McNerney

#7. The longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it,

Gustav Meyrink

#8. Don't under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don't think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

Nana Awere Damoah

#9. Until we accept that our children have much more of a risk of being sexually abused than drowning in a pool, being struck by a car, stricken with cancer, hurt by a vaccination, or diagnosed with ebola, we contribute to a culture of panic and ignorance.

Ann Brasco

#10. It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life,

T.D. Jakes

#11. Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

Ming-Dao Deng

#12. I don't know why they're doing it. I have to assume that their motives are positive, not negative. But they don't understand the severity of the problem in this state.

Gray Davis

#13. You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

Cory Lidle

#14. I shouldn't have concerned myself with whether he'd keep his promise. I should have thought about whether I'd keep mine.

Cynthia Hand