Christopher Hitchens Quotes About Cancer

Quotes about: Cancer

• I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Long, People

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

• My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Father, Race

• The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the “war” against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

  Christopher Hitchens

  War, Cancer, Stupidity

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.26, Atlantic Books Ltd

• Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Self, Temptation

• It ought to be an offense to be excruciating and unfunny in circumstances where your audience is almost morally obliged to enthuse.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Circumstances, Offense

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.30, Atlantic Books Ltd

• If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Bohemian, Bits

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". Newsnight interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

• Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Long, People

  "Anderson Cooper 360°", transcripts.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

• I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, People, Ends

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". Newsnight interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

• One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Cancer, Ugly

  "Christopher Hitchens discusses life, death, cancer and God in interview with Newsnight". Newsnight interview, www.bbc.co.uk. November 26, 2010.

• It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Treatment, Stage

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd

• When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Cancer, Aunt, Doctors

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