Alcoholism Quotes

Alcoholism Quote of the day

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did.

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I had become had to die.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances.

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism.

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

Alcoholism is the disease of more.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.