Tag: cancer survival

Oct 8, 2026

“There’s something about cancer, it makes people not want to be near you.” — Michael Douglas | Quote of the Day

Michael Douglas — the Oscar-winning actor and producer who at 82 has just published his first memoir, One Helluva Ride — on the line he gave The New York Times about what his 2010 cancer diagnosis taught him: “There’s something about cancer, it makes people not want to be near you.” He went on: “I was surprised by how few people checked in. They don’t know what to say.”

Michael Douglas

Oct 4, 2026

“The secret to being happy is repeating to yourself: ‘These are the good days.’” — Hannah Fry | Quote of the Day

Hannah Fry, the British mathematician, author and broadcaster who became Cambridge’s first Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics and is competing on the second series of The Celebrity Traitors, on the line from her 2023 Guardian interview ‘This Much I Know’ — the practice she arrived at after surviving cervical cancer at 36: the secret to being happy is repeating to yourself, ‘These are the good days.’

Hannah Fry