Alcoholism is a disease. People will debate whether it is a disease of the mind, of genetics, or of circumstances. I don't… — Eva Marie Copy Share Image
I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you… — Osamu Dazai 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
A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend.… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I can hear myself whining again 'Why does God torture me?' - But anybody who's never had a delirium tremens even in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink!… — Mercedes McCambridge Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“i could tell that the speed was affecting my heart rate and i could only sleep for a couple of hours at… — Karen Kilgariff Copy Share Image
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted… — Pierre Bourdieu 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
Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics… — Kate Madison Copy Share Image
Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image
Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity.… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person,… — Sanna Lenken Copy Share Image
“For years I had rejected or been rejected by friends, lovers, family, and God. I was alone and afraid. My life had… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Last night I dreamt Moses and I were rowing underwater. We could breathe and talk to one another. We rowed past schools… — J. Dylan Yates Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
“In sum, the 12 steps are not a road to recovery, let alone the road to recovery. They are, instead, a road… — Charles Bufe Copy Share Image
“The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must… — William Griffith Wilson Copy Share Image
“I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like… — Nadia Bolz-Weber Copy Share Image
“Alcoholics are, in truth, failures, and their failure is a simple failure of will. They have made bad choices, and they continue… — Martin E.P. Seligman 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
“She’s happier than Nicola. That’s probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it… — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and… — Stacy Barthe 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
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
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
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