“An alcoholic is dependent on alcohol. Alcohol is dependent on the bottle.” — Tamerlan Kuzgov Copy Share Image
“When it's summer, people sit a lot. Or lie. Lie in the sense of recumbency. A good heavy book holds you down.… — Roy Blount Jr Copy Share Image
“You're walking down Fool's Street, Laura used to say when he was drinking, and she had been right. He had known even… — Robert F. Young Copy Share Image
“oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)” — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself with sex. the bottle is damned faithful,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The next, I'm one who has swallowed liquor. I'm… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“I'll never amount to anything—well anything my parents want, so instead I’ll end up puking and drinking till I’m blind drunk, It’s… — P.A. Bitez Copy Share Image
“It used to be that each time you fell in love, the effort of loving released in you the energy to hold… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority… — Anthony Kiedis 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
Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another. — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when… — Vicki Covington Copy Share Image
“Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“If fear is like a storm wave striking you, then a panic attack is a tsunami that batters your soul. Drinking to… — Michael Jackson Smith Copy Share Image
“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity” — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
“Right," I said, but it didn't feel very right. I didn't want to make it. I wanted to lie down with it… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You're like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
