Writing Quote by Jonathan Lethem

“I detected sarcoma." He put his finger on his neck. "Right here." The other man nodded--his head seemed to be nodding continually--and muttered: "Yes.…

— Henri Barbusse

“The word Cancer alone makes me shiver. How harsh and unforgiving it sounds.”

— E.M. Crane

“The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.”

— Steve Toltz

“Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.”

— Sherman Alexie

“Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. Then, if it likes you, it takes the rest.”

— John Green

The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.

— Edward Albee

“But fist, I want you to understand one thing: apart from certain pathological cases, people only go insane when they try to escspe from…

— Paulo Coelho

“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the skin untouched,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“I know a plastic surgeon who put the gun/ in his mouth, fired, and lived./ Thing of the echo. The brain in its great…

— Keith Ratzlaff

I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even…

— David Rakoff

“Anything would be better than these blotches coloured with self-pity and self-importance. Plagued scribbles that sink the heart and darken the soul. Rereading it…

— Marcel M. du Plessis

“he was surgically removing a malignant tumor that I’d been carrying around for years. A tumor that had been eating away at my insides.…

— Kristen Ashley