“I was never educated on the topic of alcoholism. I had to go through it, to understand it” — Jim Serger 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
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour. — Joan Acocella 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
But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him,… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to… — Rebecca West 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
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
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
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
In Maybe I Will, Laurie Gray writes about important topics that teens need to talk about, including sexual assault, friendship, and alcoholism… — Cheryl Rainfield Copy Share Image
Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like… — Gary Chapman 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
This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe,… — Andrew Forrest 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
“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
“It's the captain. He looks fresh shaved. My own face is covered in little wires that amount to nothing but the look… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“One weekend it rained for 48 hours without stopping. The rain beat like bony fingers against the window panes. Tap. Tap. Tap.… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Untreated alcoholism without the steps on a daily basis will make my past my future. — Anonymous 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
“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. — Marguerite Duras 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
Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. — Marian Engel Copy Share Image
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.” — Sidney Knight Copy Share Image
there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“And you know what the worst thing was? The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.” — Jack McCarthy Copy Share Image
I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
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