Quote by Ozzy Osbourne

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because…

— Chris Prentiss

“I'm not an addictive personality, I just like getting high, that's all.”

— Rita Mae Brown

“Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It’s a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.”

— Charles Duhigg

“I wasn't an alcoholic. I didn't drink every day, didn't often drink to excess or binge. And could leave it alone completely for large…

— Ellen Hopkins

“What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication?”

— Hermann Hesse

“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or,…

— Anthony Kiedis

“The question is never “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?”

— Gabor Maté

“Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up to do.…

— Stephen King

I believe I was born an addict, and alcoholic. The first time I drank alcohol, I just wanted more and more. During my teens…

— Ruben Castaneda

“Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I’m just not good with alcohol. And I…

— Ava Gardner

“I was never educated on the topic of alcoholism. I had to go through it, to understand it”

— Jim Serger