Alcoholism Quotes
I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have ...
Show MoreI had to feel sorry for Bubba's wife. In AA we called it denial. We take the asp to our breast and s...
Show MoreThe life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...
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Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested -...
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What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disco...
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Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, t...
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Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...
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She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was t...
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A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real al...
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholi...
Show MoreAn alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.
When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds ...
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It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and se...
Show MoreThe mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand ...
Show MoreSpurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm...
Show MoreWhat was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I co...
Show MoreMendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

The GeraniumWhen I put her out, once, by the garbage pail,She looked so limp and bedraggled,So fooli...
Show MoreBut I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

To begin with, there is an almost compulsive promiscuity associated with homosexual behavior. 75% of...
Show MorePeople with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous m...
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I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and ma...
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One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.
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One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.
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One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.
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One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.
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Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was...
Show Moreligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviat...
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I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the ...
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it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosex...
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Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It wa...
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I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I ha...
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Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even th...
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I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could...
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Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattere...
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This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.
