“Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?”
John Suckling (1609–1642) English poet
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
"Berzerk"
2010s, The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (2013)
“Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?”
John Suckling (1609–1642) English poet
Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?
Ilana Mercer South African writer
"Trump nation tired of racial sadomasochism," http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/trump-nation-tired-of-racial-sadomasochism/ WorldNetDaily.com, March 3, 2016. <br class="br">2010s, 2016
“I'm sick. It's passed down through my family. I am an addict. I'm sick.”
Travis Meeks (1979) American musician
Regarding his meth addiction
[liveDaily, http://www.livedaily.com/news/5529.html, Interview: Travis Meeks of Days of the New, 2003-09-24]
“It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.”
Julius Caesar (-100–-44 BC) Roman politician and general
As reported in Plutarch's Anthony'; William Shakespeare adapted this in having Caesar declare Cassius as having "a lean and hungry look."
“I'm sick of my own romanticism!”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
Source: Henry & June
Tex Atchison (1912–1982) American musician
Song Sick, Sober and Sorry http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/sicksobersorry.shtml
“Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) Irish playwright and librettist
Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 221.
“Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer