Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Copy Share Image
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this,… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way… — Ginger Rogers Copy Share Image
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to… — Phyllis A. Balch Copy Share Image
But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“You know one day, you're going to look back on these days. And everyone you went to high school with will either… — Dave Matthes 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
“For an organization that has expressly denied religious standing and publicly claims a secular—even scientific—approach, it is curious that AA retains these… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“blinds them to anything and everything that falls outside that system. What they see and feel is only what feeds their addiction… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“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
It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“So they bring our poor Andreas into the vestry, and unfortunately he's no longer capable of speech, all he can do is… — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“Kate was about to protest when something caused her to look in her mother’s direction. She was standing statue-like in front of… — Sabrynne McLain 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
“An empty bottle of Jack is almost just as beautiful as a new and unopened bottle...in the same sense as looking down… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image
The drivenness in any addiction is about the ruptured self, the belief that one is flawed as a person. The content of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would… — Dina Kucera 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
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
“Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,… — Charles Bukowski 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
The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
