--- title: "11 Drink Death Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 11 Drink Death quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Drink Death sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/jack-kerouac-182_alcohol_i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide_2138.jpg" --- > [I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide-but-i-plan-to-drink-myself-to/) [Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/jack-kerouac-182_alcohol_i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide_2138.jpg) > [What do drunkards do? They... drink... themselves... to... death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-seabrook/what-do-drunkards-do-they-drink-themselves-to-death/) [William Seabrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-seabrook/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce9/william-seabrook-77704_death_what-do-drunkards-do-they-drink-themselv_2811665.jpg) > [British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-oliver/british-people-would-die-for-their-right-to-drink-themselves-to-death/) [John Oliver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-oliver/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/173/john-oliver-2975_british_british-people-would-die-for-their-right_2965637.png) > [You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jesse-ventura/you-can-drink-yourself-to-death-you-can-smoke-yourself-to-death-you/) [Jesse Ventura](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jesse-ventura/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e9/jesse-ventura-1236_death_you-can-drink-yourself-to-death-you-can_3160243.png) > [“With a firm hushed tone, she replied, "Just let him go. Women like Anne will always be the best choice for our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/devon-ashley/with-a-firm-hushed-tone-she-replied-just-let-him-go-women-like-anne/) [Devon Ashley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/devon-ashley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/451/devon-ashley-25848_anne_with-a-firm-hushed-tone-she-replied-just_231088.jpg) > [“We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/g-k-chesterton/we-now-have-a-strong-desire-for-living-combined-with-a-strange/) [G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/g-k-chesterton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a81/g-k-chesterton-224_death_we-now-have-a-strong-desire-for-living-c_1950340.jpg) > [“I'm going out, I'm gonna drink myself to death And in the crowd I see you with someone else I brace myself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/florence-welch/i-m-going-out-i-m-gonna-drink-myself-to-death-and-in-the-crowd-i-see/) [Florence Welch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/florence-welch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c1/florence-welch-2551_death_i-m-going-out-i-m-gonna-drink-myself-to_2667807.png) > [“Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-matheson/despite-everything-he-had-or-might-have-except-of-course-another/) [Richard Matheson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-matheson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc0/richard-matheson-3375_change_despite-everything-he-had-or-might-have_526134.jpg) > [“He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it’s love. Fucking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-zevin/he-feels-drunk-or-at-least-carbonated-insane-at-first-he-thinks-this/) [Gabrielle Zevin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabrielle-zevin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/gabrielle-zevin-626_drunk_he-feels-drunk-or-at-least-carbonated-in_1949767.jpg) > [“Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/watching-a-parent-die-is-a-terrible-task-my-father-faced-with/) [Yudhanjaya Wijeratne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yudhanjaya-wijeratne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b9d/yudhanjaya-wijeratne-21966_alcohol_watching-a-parent-die-is-a-terrible-task_446659.jpg) > [“Who dies best, the soldier who falls for your sake, or the fly in my whiskey-glass? The happy agony of the fly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-t-vollmann/who-dies-best-the-soldier-who-falls-for-your-sake-or-the-fly-in-my/) [William T. Vollmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-t-vollmann/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/644/william-t-vollmann-2100_death_who-dies-best-the-soldier-who-falls-for_511043.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drink-death/#itemlist", "name": "Drink Death Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jack Kerouac" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide-but-i-plan-to-drink-myself-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/jack-kerouac-182_alcohol_i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide_2138.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/jack-kerouac-182_alcohol_i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide_2138.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/194/jack-kerouac-182_alcohol_i-m-catholic-and-i-can-t-commit-suicide_2138.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.” — Jack Kerouac", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What do drunkards do? 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Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it’s love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother. It’s completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything. No,”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabrielle Zevin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabrielle-zevin/he-feels-drunk-or-at-least-carbonated-insane-at-first-he-thinks-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/gabrielle-zevin-626_drunk_he-feels-drunk-or-at-least-carbonated-in_1949767.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/gabrielle-zevin-626_drunk_he-feels-drunk-or-at-least-carbonated-in_1949767.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b1c/gabrielle-zevin-626_drunk_he-feels-drunk-or-at-least-carbonated-in_1949767.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. 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These questions, if we ask the dead fly, are both answered thus: In a drunken state. But drunk on WHAT should we all be? Well, there's love to drink, of course, and death, which is the same thing, and whiskey, better still, and heroin, best of all—except maybe for holiness. Accordingly, let this book, like its characters, be devoted to Addiction, Addicts, Pushers, Prostitutes and Pimps. With upraised needles, Bibles, dildoes and shot glasses, let us now throw our condoms in the fire, unbutton our trousers, and happily commit THIS MULTITUDE OF CRIMES.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William T. 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