“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.” — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human… — Alex Campbell Copy Share Image
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“In addition to the smells of mince and pumpkin pies, the Sage and onions of turkey stuffing, another aroma floated in the… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it.… — Susan Cheever 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've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
“He starts to tell Isaac about his sobriety, but something stops him. Like if he speaks the words aloud he’ll jinx it.… — Daniel Abbott Copy Share Image
I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“In retrospect, this seems to summarize all the insanity of that time. Guy is standing on top of a burning building. Helicopter… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly,… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Centurion Sermon (Sonnet 1005) Peace is an act of ceasefire, Peace is an act of disarmament. If you don't get this simple… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As a teenager, I loved how I looked in the outfit of using drugs and exercising poor judgement. I had tried it… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“My loss of faith in God had, after all, neatly coincided with the beginning of my drug use when I was 15.… — Carl-John X Veraja Copy Share Image
“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the… — Craig Ferguson 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
“Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It’s up to… — Kevin Brooks 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
“Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.” — Hannibal Lecture 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
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism. — Craig Benzine Copy Share Image
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their… — William Shakespeare 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
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it… — Irene Tomkinson Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.” — Grace W. Wroldson Copy Share Image
“The day I became free of alcohol was the day that I fully understood and embraced the truth that I would not… — Liz Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Earth is necessity, not Mars. Food and water are necessities, not alcohol and cigarettes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
