Alcohol Quote by Denis Johnson

“For the first time in his life, he was receiving the priceless gift of a woman's unconditional love and acceptance. It contradicted all that…

— Barbara Branden

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm…

— Anonymous

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great…

— John Barrymore

“He believed a man should never be sober but never be drunk. And he believed in watching out for family, even if you had…

— Allan Dare Pearce

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was…

— Emily Dickinson

“All her life she would associate liquor with her childhood. When she was alone and did not wish to be, a drink would reassure…

— Pamela Moore

“He drank, for the same reason he wrote second-rate science fiction. Not to forget but to remember, to open the past and find himself…

— Joanne Harris

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that…

— Anonymous

“This had always been the worst time when the quiet emptiness could leave him gasping for breath. She was there, his wife, a peripheral…

— Sarah Winman