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I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.
— Craig Ferguson
Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It's a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.
— Charles Duhigg
Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!
— Malcolm Lowry
The records were in Danish, sadly, but a foreign language was no obstacle at five a.m. with a healthy buzz going.
— Lars Emmerich
I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.
Whoever I had become had to die. — Craig Ferguson
Whoever I had become had to die. — Craig Ferguson
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.
— Craig Benzine
I use to drink every day without a care until I released the Demons that now I must bare
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall between
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. — Jack London
one's immediate desires and long-learned morality. — Jack London
Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
— Russell Brand
Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.
— Conan O'Brien
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
— Steven Soderbergh
Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.
— Lemony Snicket
I felt pure the way you feel after you vomit, kind of light and strangely holy, like having taken a sauna in hell.
— Michelle Tea
One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.
— Billy Graham
Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.
— David Stafford
I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.
— Theia Mey
I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.
— Sarah Hepola
This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. — Ernest Hemingway,
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed. — Ernest Hemingway,
Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.
— Mary Karr
It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen!
— Belinda G. Buchanan
I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me.
— Martin Pond
I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.
— Barry Hannah
One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity
— Roddy Doyle
There was a sink for washing glasses and an assortment of cartoon napkins illustrating the lighter side of alcoholism.
— David Sedaris
Alcoholism is a Curse
— Honeya
One doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine. — Charles Bukowski
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine. — Charles Bukowski
Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.
— Dave Matthes
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
— Harold S. Geneen
Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places
— Gordon Rouston
A person who is alcoholic usually has the feeling of inferiority that results in a person feeling extremely depressed.
— Paul Silway
When you quit drinking you stop waiting.
— Caroline Knapp
Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
— Tennessee Williams
Getting sober is a radically creative act.
— Meredith Bell
I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.
— George Best
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.
— Malachy McCourt
The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not be giving anything up by not drinking
— Liz Hemingway
Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.
— Irene Tomkinson
I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
That woman." My cousin placed his hands on his hips. "She is a harbinger of ulcers and alcoholism
— L. H. Cosway
She was trying to hide it, the pain I had caused her again. Because she knew how much those tears destroyed me.
— Ashleigh Z.
Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements.
— Vicki Covington
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.
— Truman Capote
If there's one thing I learned in Alanon, it's that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.
— Vicki Covington
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.
— Ariana Franklin
I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.
— Sarah Hepola
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing
— Tennessee Williams
If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.
— Michaela Haze
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
— Liza Minnelli
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.
— Augusten Burroughs
I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
— Caitlin Thomas
There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk
in fact, quite the contrary. — Heather King
in fact, quite the contrary. — Heather King
Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol.
— Srinivas Shenoy
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.
— Craig Ferguson
I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.
— Dan Fante
And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. — Jack McCarthy
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried. — Jack McCarthy
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
— Kay Boyle
His laugh is made of porch swings and lemonade.
— Augusten Burroughs
Gin and whisky cost so much more. Oblivion and courage could no longer be purchased for the price of an old song.
— Norah Hoult
How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?
— Sebastian Barry
I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.
— Dave Matthes
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
— Simone Weil
It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.
— Tennessee Williams
Everything I had I gave to alcohol.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
— Terence McKenna
Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.
— Chris Wooding
Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time.
— Augusten Burroughs
My family traditions are alcoholism and dysfunction," Jennifer said. "Oh, and anything you can make from government cheese.
— Libba Bray
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
— Caroline Knapp
Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?
— Catherine Lockwood
There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.
— Mercedes McCambridge
When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.
— Robert Black
I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle in order to do it.
— Belinda G. Buchanan
I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.
— Christopher Atkins
The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.
— Augusten Burroughs
Young people who begin drinking before age fifteen are four times more likely to develop alcoholism than those who begin drinking at twenty-one.
— Joe Bruzzese
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.
— Mary Karr