Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
“I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.”
Я человек больной... Я злой человек. Непривлекательный я человек.
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
Notes from Underground (1864)
“Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Book VII, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
Source: posthumous, Movements in art since 1945, p. 15: (in Gorky Memorial Exhibition, Schwabacher pp. 12)
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Widely quoted, including Freedomways, p. 240 (Second quarter, 1965). This quote was later employed as her epitaph, and used by American singer and songwriter Anastacia at her song Sick and Tired.
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Letter to his mistress, Lady Hamilton (1800) [citation needed]; derived from "But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive." by William Shakespeare, in Henry V
1800s
“I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy.”
Lyrics, Morning View (2001)
“I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
Quoted from: Antonio Rodríguez, "Una pintora extraordinaria," Así (17 March 1945)
1925 - 1945
Variant: I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
