David Rakoff Quotes

I don't want to die until I see cancer cured.

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

When they told me I had cancer, I thought I was going to die.

I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

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

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers.

Cancer will be with me for the rest of my life, be it as a nodule, tumor or cell someplace, or in my fears and anxieties.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

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

Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.

Probably the toughest time in my life was - was standing there with Ann as we hugged each other and the diagnosis came. And I was afraid it was Lou Gehrig's disease. As we came into the doctor's office, the brochures on his table there were Lou Gehrig's, ALS, and multiple sclerosis.

Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

Cancer is just one little word but, when you hear it, it turns your whole life upside down.

I would like to avoid dying if possible. I do like living! The worst, I think for me, though, would be a really bedridden death.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

My parents never told me about Papa's lung cancer or the desperate nature of the operations he was about to undergo, which were a last-ditch effort to contain the spread of his cancer.

My gold, my money couldn't stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can't save me, then I don't need them.

I have cancer. It's in my brain... What are you gonna do about it?

I have no cancer. I have four illnesses, but they are not fatal.