Susan Sontag Quotes

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

Studios are like hospitals. A lot of people check in, and they don't check out.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Cancer does not discriminate.

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?