'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess — John Selden Copy Share Image
“The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.” — J.D. Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
My alcoholism was an illness. It was in my DNA, my genes. Both my parents were addicts and I have an addictive… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity” — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
If alcoholism is considered a disease. Then shouldn't you be able to call off work drunk — Myself Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not… — Liz Hemingway Copy Share Image
The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person,… — Sanna Lenken Copy Share Image
“Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity.… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to… — Phyllis A. Balch Copy Share Image
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this,… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
“Right," I said, but it didn't feel very right. I didn't want to make it. I wanted to lie down with it… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Kate was about to protest when something caused her to look in her mother’s direction. She was standing statue-like in front of… — Sabrynne McLain Copy Share Image
“The whiskey was a good start. I got the idea from Dylan Thomas. He's this poet who drank twenty-one straight whiskeys at… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“And I was sure it was the drink that irrigated White’s self-sabotage, for it is the common trait of alcoholics to make… — Helen Macdonald Copy Share Image
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
