“I'm sick and tired of always being sick and tired.”
Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter
Sick and Tired
Anastacia (2004)
I Just Want You, written by Ozzy Osbourne and Jim Vallance.
Song lyrics, Ozzmosis (1995)
“I'm sick and tired of always being sick and tired.”
Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter
Sick and Tired
Anastacia (2004)
“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.
“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
Graham Greene book The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
Kate Kelly (1980) American feminist
We raised our voices here': Massive women's march headlines Utah Legislature's opening day: Rally organizers vow to track bills related to women's rights and discrimination, The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4853488&itype=CMSID, (25 January 2017)
“You know, I'm sick and tired of people pointing rifles at me.”
Carrie Vaughn (1973) American writer
Source: Kitty Takes a Holiday
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
Margaret Chase Smith (1897–1995) Member of the United States Senate from Maine
Declaration of Conscience (1950)
Context: The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as "Communists" or "Fascists" by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.
The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed.
“I got sick and tired of all that Purity! Wanted to tell stories..”
Phillip Guston (1913–1980) American artist
Guston's quote in 1967, referring to his swift from Abstract expressionism to figurative painting
Abstract Expressionism, David Anfam, Thames and Hudson Ltd London, 1990, p. 207
1961 - 1980
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Interview in Playboy (January 1965) https://web.archive.org/web/20080706183244/http://www.playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/mlk/04.html <br class="br">1960s
“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.”
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"Episodes and Visions", p. 308
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Context: To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori; Civilization is Sartre; culture Cocteau; Civilization is mutual aid and self-defense; culture is the judge, the lawbook and the forces of Law & Ordure (sic); Civilization is uprising, insurrection, revolution; culture is the war of state against state, or of machines against people, as in Hungary and Vietnam; Civilization is tolerance, detachment and humor, or passion, anger, revenge; culture is the entrance examination, the gas chamber, the doctoral dissertation and the electric chair; Civilization is the Ukrainian peasant Nestor Makhno fighting the Germans, then the Reds, then the Whites, then the Reds again; culture is Stalin and the Fatherland; Civilization is Jesus turning water into wine; culture is Christ walking on the waves; Civilization is a youth with a Molotov cocktail in his hand; culture is the Soviet tank or the L. A. cop that guns him down; Civilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 tons of cement; Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.