Bill O'Reilly Quotes

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Cancer does not discriminate.

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

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.

Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

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

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

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.

AIDS killed him, but our health care system tortured him.

I've always been aware of mortality because I've always had ill health most of my life.

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

All diseases run into one, old age.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

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

Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.

I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

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.

My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma.

We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson's disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.

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