“I resolved to come right to the point. "Hello," I said as coldly as possible, "we've got to talk." "Yes, Bob," he… — Robert B. Oxnam Copy Share Image
The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as… — Stephen Graham Jones 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
“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
“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
“He panted over me, winded by his own absurd lecture. The stench of his alcoholic breath stung my nose. Again I didn’t… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I can hear myself whining again 'Why does God torture me?' - But anybody who's never had a delirium tremens even in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see… — Chynna T. Laird Copy Share Image
“When he was a kid, it used to feel like his parents disappeared when the got drunk. As the levels of their… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various… — Joseph Jaworski Copy Share Image
My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
Whatever your (unfavorable) situation is, it is a good idea to ask yourself "WHAT YOU WOULD DO if you were free of… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
“Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess — John Selden Copy Share Image
I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates Copy Share Image
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. — Oscar Levant Copy Share Image
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where. — Omar Khayyam 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
