Book VII, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“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
“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)
“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]
“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
“Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
“Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.”
William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)
Quoted in Archibald W. Butt (1930), Taft and Roosevelt.
Attributed
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e
“Pride fills me. I am sick with the pride that destroyed me.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)
