John Prine 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.

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.

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 remember just how afraid I was. I was just as much afraid of the treatment as the diagnosis. So I thought I could talk about it in an authentic way.

I'm not playing 'Survivor' when someone I love has cancer.

When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it's so unexpected.

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

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

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

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

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.

When you hear the word 'cancer,' it's as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don't know where to start.

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 said hello.

When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

It's a scary word, 'cancer.'

I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.

I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

Serious is when they tell you, 'You've got cancer.' Cancer is serious, but then the rest of it is not.

There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.

Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.

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.

When you get cancer, it's like really time to look at what your life was and is, and I decided that everything I've done so far is not as important as what I'm going to do now.

There's nothing sexy about cancer.

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