Grief Quote by Abigail George

“There's a reason people get drunk after funerals, and I suddenly know what it is: the flip side of sadness is a dark, devouring…

— Hilary T. Smith

“I’ve always liked to drink. But I did become sadder, and sadness gets boring after a while, for the sad person and for everyone…

— Paula Hawkins

“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away.…

— Dina Kucera

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one…

— Thomas Hardy

“People drink more when they're sad.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to…

— E.L. Konigsburg

“I’ll give you a glass of wine, if you give me a few drops of water from your eyes. I’m thirsty for your sadness.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.”

— Habeeb Akande

“For the first time I realized that perhaps my drinking was getting a bit out of hand, but I knew you’d drink too if…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“If I hadn’t quit drinking, yeah, maybe I’d be dead or in jail. But probably I’d just be missing out on an extraordinary life.…

— Brendan Leonard

“This is how the Dauntless mourn: by chasing grief into the oblivion of alcohol and leaving it there.”

— Veronica Roth