“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
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Chris Martin (1977) musician, co-founder of Coldplay
http://www.hotpress.com/music/day-2000-coldplays-debut-album-parachutes-hits-no-1-22782005 source
“I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (October 5, 1923)
Letters
“I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Quoted in Time Magazine, "Mexican Autobiography" (27 April 1953)
1946 - 1953
“I don't know how people who engage in that don't commit suicide”
Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
commenting on people "talking the economy down", just before the crash. Speech at Irish Congress of Trade Unions conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjGSfuSQpA 2007-07-3.
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51
1910s
Variant: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
“I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Я человек больной... Я злой человек. Непривлекательный я человек.
Part 1, Chapter 1 (page 7)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) American artist
around 1965
Quote from Robert Rauschenberg, The early 1950s, Walter Hopps, Houston Fine Art Press, 1991
1960's
“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977) American civil rights activist (October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977)
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.
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last