Michael McCaul Quotes

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

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

Once I got cancer of the tongue and throat, I realised that stress is a killer and I had to try and get stress out of my life.

I know I am at the end. I shall never get better, dear.

Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

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

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.

Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

I am about to die, God calls me... I have scarcely strength enough to support the last days that remain of my miserable life... I see no salvation for the country. I believe everything is lost forever. If there were a single sacrifice I could make - my life, my happiness or my honour – believe me, I would not hesitate; but I am convinced the sacrifice would be useless. Since I am unable to secure the happiness of my country, I refuse to rule it. Further, the tyrants have taken my native land from me and therefore I have no longer any country for which to make a sacrifice

Too many days, that awful, despicable, rude, ruthless bully called cancer has knocked on the door of those I love.

When I heard 'incurable'... incurable is a tough word.

Cancer is the ugliest, scariest, most dreaded word in the English language. My credentials for saying so? Head-to-head, firsthand close encounters with different versions of the fiendish devil.

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.

My daughter had cancer in both eyes - and we could save just one.