“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.” — Sidney Knight Copy Share Image
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment… — Denise Juneau Copy Share Image
Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it.… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing… — Moby Copy Share Image
“An addict newly separated from their thing, whether it's drinking, drugs, throwing up ten times a day or anything else is like… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“It's amazing how fearless you can be when you want something bad enough, the lengths to which you'll go, the grit you'll… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too… — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere inside was terrible. Brenda stared into the distance whenever I was around her and hardly spoke to me. Little Jim… — Tracie Daily Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
A few years ago, when I was writing songs for my first album, I was staying with Michael Feinstein as I often… — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
It is a myth that alcoholics have some spontaneous insight and then seek treatment. Victims of this disease do not submit to… — Vernon Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“By the time I was eighteen, she had sat me down and detailed her alcoholism, its onset and aftermath. She believed that… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“AA makes inflated claims about itself. Its foundational document, Alcoholics Anonymous (commonly referred to as the “Big Book” and a perennial best… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine. It’s okay to… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes” — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
“When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Untreated alcoholism without the steps on a daily basis will make my past my future. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him,… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Ethan didn't mind his blood being taken - he just disliked the fact that it had to be sucked through a needle… — Belinda G. Buchanan Copy Share Image