David H. Koch Quotes

The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

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.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

You wonder, 'How could it possibly be me?' Well, of course it could happen to you. You have it. Then, of course, you wake up every morning, and you hope it's a bad dream. Then you wake up. I have cancer.

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

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

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

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

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

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.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Diseases desperate grown by desperate appliance are relieved, or not at all.