Nembutal numbs it all, but I prefer alcohol.

“One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.”

— Veronica Roth

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Adrenaline really numbs out all pain.

— Alissa White-Gluz

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

— Moliere

Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

— James Boswell

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

— Emma Forrest

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

— Jack Kerouac

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been…

— Ernest Hemingway

He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and…

— Rebecca Romijn

Oh to that corkscrew, the useful tool to unlock the treasure of wit, the treasury of laughter, the front door of fellowship, and the…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.”

— Martin Amis

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

— David Simon

I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do…

— Don Rickles

Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the…

— Benjamin Franklin

“She kneeled down, opened the wine fridge, and scanned the shelves, filled with a variety of white wines. Sam began to pull each bottle…

— Viola Shipman