Alcoholism Quotes

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Alcoholism is a vile disease.

— Kerry Katona

I hope alcoholism isn't hereditary...

— Anonymous

“Seamus, don’t jump!”

— Josie Riviera

“I couldn't stop so I quit.”

— Brian Spellman

“Alcoholism is a Curse”

— honeya

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

— Caroline Knapp

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

— Jennifer Stone

“The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.”

— J.D. Ruskin

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

— Amit Abraham

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess

— John Selden

“Headaches are for sloths as hangovers for drunks.”

— Ahmed Mostafa

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

— Hannah More

Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

— Robin Williams

“I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself with sex. the bottle is damned faithful,…

— Charles Bukowski

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

“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

“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

Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

— Marguerite Duras

“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

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

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

— Story Musgrave

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received…

— Charles Lamb

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I…

— Kristin Davis

Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics…

— Kate Madison

“They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend.…

— John Berryman

Journalists are more powerful now than they've ever been, and we all know what power does. Anyone who disses the media is…

— Charles McGrath

I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore.…

— Irvine Welsh

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic,…

— Raymond Chandler

The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they're not gonna, and there's…

— John Rzeznik

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted…

— Pierre Bourdieu

“i could tell that the speed was affecting my heart rate and i could only sleep for a couple of hours at…

— Karen Kilgariff

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink!…

— Mercedes McCambridge

“In Alcoholics Anonymous they say you need to have faith in a higher power to help you overcome your addictions. You can’t…

— Brad Warner

“Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up…

— Stephen King

“I can hear myself whining again 'Why does God torture me?' - But anybody who's never had a delirium tremens even in…

— Jack Kerouac

“Some lurid things have been said about me—that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth—that I…

— Christopher Hitchens

“No one can practice the precepts perfectly, including the Buddha... Boiled vegetables contain dead bacteria. We cannot practice the First Precept or…

— Anonymous

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

— Margaret Halsey