Alcoholism Quotes

“I couldn't stop so I quit.”

— Brian Spellman

“Alcoholism is a Curse”

— honeya

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

— Caroline Knapp

“Seamus, don’t jump!”

— Josie Riviera

Alcoholism is a vile disease.

— Kerry Katona

I hope alcoholism isn't hereditary...

— Anonymous

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

— Mason Cooley

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

— Brendan Behan

“It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen!”

— Belinda G. Buchanan

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

— Oscar Levant

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

— Robin Williams

Alcoholism and country music are both tremendous aids to self-dramatisation.

— Frank Skinner

“His eyes are so clear and blue that nothing but clichés enter my mind.”

— Augusten Burroughs

People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family.

— Frank McCourt

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good…

— Samuel Johnson

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

— Margaret Halsey

“Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.”

— Sidney Knight

there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to…

— Caitlin Thomas

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

— Vance Havner

“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.”

— Jack McCarthy

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went…

— Liza Minnelli

“When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol…

— Robert Black

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every…

— William Griffith Wilson

“Her boozy breath was day-old, but of quality of Origin. Malt whisky, Carl guessed. The air was so thick with it, an…

— Jussi Adler-Olsen

“When I walked into the house, I went in search of one of my dad's bottles. Not that they were that hard…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had…

— Jim Hamilton

“Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people…

— Lance Dodes

My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a…

— Sam Shepard

“We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives.…

— Liz Hemingway

Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that…

— Mercedes McCambridge

“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is…

— Lance Dodes

“If you threw Elvis and a scarecrow in a blender, topped the whole thing off with Seagram's 7 and pressed dice, you…

— Andrea Portes

The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide…

— Thomas Szasz

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being…

— Mary Crow Dog

“This is the point where the knowing, irony-infused author laughs along with his readers about his time among the aphorisms, how he…

— David Carr

I knew as a young boy that addiction and alcoholism afflict people - good, loving people - in profound ways, and that…

— Brian Lindstrom

“Alcoholics Anonymous was proclaimed the correct treatment for alcoholism over seventy-five years ago despite the absence of any scientific evidence of the…

— Lance Dodes

In rock 'n' roll, as we all know, the image is that it's one big party. But many times the reality is…

— Nathan East

“I soaked up the drink and it, in return, absorbed me.”

— Martin Pond