Quotes about cancer

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

— Gilbert Adair

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

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

I don't think makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.

— Cindy Crawford

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

— John B. S. Haldane

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