Sadness Quote by Sam Harris

“But in the light of the new understanding that I have found in A.A., I have been able to interpret that defeat and that…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“This is how the Dauntless mourn: by chasing grief into the oblivion of alcohol and leaving it there.”

— Veronica Roth

“Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control…

— Ann D. Clark

“There's a reason people get drunk after funerals, and I suddenly know what it is: the flip side of sadness is a dark, devouring…

— Hilary T. Smith

“The hardest thing I had to deal with in sobriety was my own anger and the violence I lived through in my childhood. I…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“New Year’s resolutions I recycled for a dozen years while my drinking and my life kept getting worse. Alcohol had enslaved me. I was…

— Alcoholics Anonymous

“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away.…

— Dina Kucera

“We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together,…

— Ariel Levy

“For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem less immediate,…

— R. Scott Bakker

“Becoming an ex-alcoholic, however, is not easy. Drink may be futile and ultimately degrading, but only the fortunate drinker discovers this. And it is…

— George Sheehan

“I had a deep and abiding love for the idea that this life is not something that we are forced to endure but rather…

— Paul Harding

“Picking them up and reading them, I felt sadness do deep that it will never really be gone. It was a sobering moment-- sobering…

— David Levithan