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John Green Quotes about Cancer

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That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

That smile could end wars and cure cancer.

War, Cancer, Ends

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.37, Penguin

Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

Cancer, Eye, Grace

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Death, Cancer, Honor

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

She had this dark cancer water dripping out of her chest. Eyes closed. Intubated. But her hand was still her hand, still warm and the nails painted this almost black dark blue and I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good enough person to hope she died so she would never know that I was going, too. But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.

Falling In Love, Cancer, Eye

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

How are the eyes?' 'Oh, excellent,' he said. 'I mean, they're not in my head is the only problem.' 'Awesome, yeah,' Gus said. 'Not to one-up you or anything, but my body is made out of cancer.' 'So I heard,' Issac said, trying not to let it get to him. He fumbled toward Gus's hand and found only his thigh. 'I'm taken,' Gus said.

Real, Cancer, Taken

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

Jesus, Cancer, Kids

And then we were kissing.....The space around us evaporated, and for a weird moment I rally like my body; this cancer-ruined thing I'd spent years dragging around suddenly seemed worth the struggle.

Cancer, Struggle, Kissing

Augustus Waters died eight days after his prefuneral, at Memorial, in the ICU, when the cancer, which was made of him, finally stopped his heart, which was also made of him.

Cancer, Heart, Eight

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.149, Penguin

depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Cancer, Dying, Sides

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.169, Penguin

One of the pitfalls about writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise-beyond-their-years creatures or these sad-eyed tragic people. And the truth is, people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer. They're every bit as funny and complex and diverse as anyone else.

Wise, Cancer, Writing

Just deleting vandalism on the Chuck Norris page," Radar said. "For instance, while I do think that Chuck Norris specializes in the roundhouse kick, I don't think it's accurate to say, 'Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer, but unfortunately he has never cried.

Cancer, Thinking, Tears

I tried to tell myself that it could be worse, that the world was not a wish-granting factory, that I was living with cancer not dying of it, that I mustn't let it kill me before it kills me.

Cancer, Wish, Dying

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

Cancer, Giving, Chance

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.229, Penguin

Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to walk into the examination room and be like, "Guy walks into a bar. Bartender says, 'What'll ya have?' And the guy says, 'Whaddya got?' And the bartender says, 'I don't know what I got, but I know what you got: Stage IV melanoma.

Mom, Cancer, Mean

John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.76, Penguin

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

Real, Cancer, Math

John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.213, Penguin

I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You’re a woman. Now die.)

Cancer, Congratulations, Miracle

"The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.

Cancer, Water, Battle

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.266, Penguin

Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible.

Cancer, Book, Kids

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.49, Penguin

But in AIA, Anna decides that being a person with cancer who starts a cancer charity is a bit narcissistic, so she starts a charity called The Anna Foundation for People with cancer Who Want to Cure Cholera.

Cancer, People, Foundation

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.36, Penguin

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

Mistake, Cancer, Years

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.65, Penguin

Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.

Cancer, Tired, Support

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. He smiled. Gallows humor.

Cancer, Thinking, Dying

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.217, Penguin

Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate.

Cancer, Mean, Blind

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.48, Penguin

Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart is made of me. It is a civil war, Hazel Grace, with a predetermined winner.

Real, War, Cancer

There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer.

Cancer, Kids, World

John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.222, Penguin

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