Alcoholism Quotes

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted.

There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

This is a good place, " he said."There's a lot of liquor, " I agreed.

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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

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

An alcoholic is someone who can violate his standards faster than he can lower them.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

Mendacity is a system that we live in, " declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

It will all be over in 2 weeks

Some things just couldn't be protectd from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off...Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn’t know.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

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

Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

If I left any good or planted any flowers among thorns, the credit goes to God and my many substantial friends.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.

When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.

We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies

It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen!

And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be.

God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect

Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

...people who don't live at least a little bit in fear, have nothing left to live for.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.

Tomorrow! How sweet its prospects for a drunkard the night before. There is no better word. Before the earth hurls itself into sunshine, nothing is not possible.

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.