Air Quote by Doris Lessing

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

— David Millar

I grew intoxicated with my own eloquence.

— Benjamin Disraeli

And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I…

— Pablo Neruda

I think I would have drank myself to death, literally, if I didn't just stop, once and for all when I did. I am…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also…

— Malachy McCourt

Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

— Mike Tyson

I'd been around alcoholism throughout my life.

— Lorrie Morgan

I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no…

— Jack London

I felt like it was inevitable that I was going to fail in life and die young. So I was frantically scrambling to document…

— Steve-O

I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and…

— Lucy Christopher

I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the…

— Anonymous