Alcoholic Quotes

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
― Dylan Thomas

“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'Stop thinking', swig, 'empty your head', swig, 'now, seriously empty your head'.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness — they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

“Page 142: "When a spouse says to the alcoholic, "you need to go to AA," that is obviously not true. The addict feels no need to do that at all, and isn't. But when she says, "I am moving out and will be open to getting back together when you are getting treatment for your addiction," then all of a sudden the addict feels "I need to get some help or I am going to lose my marriage." The need has been transferred. It is the same with any kind of problematic behavior of a person who is not taking feedback and ownership. The need and drive to do something about it must be transferred to that person, and that is done through having consequences that finally make him feel the pain instead of others. When he feels the pain, he will feel the need to change...A plan that has hope is one that limits your exposure to the foolish person's issues and forces him to feel the consequences of his performance so that he might have hope of waking up and changing.”
― Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward

“You know how we make a Scotch and water in this home?"
"No, sir," Gus said.
"We pour Scotch into a glass and then call to mind thoughts of water, and then we mix the actual Scotch with the abstracted idea of water.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Suiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?'

'Oh, rather!'

'What do you do about it?'

'I generally take a couple of cocktails.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Doctor Sally

“There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Some men are dedicated to golf like I'm addicted to cheese. We have real problems, but somehow only the alcoholics get to claim a disease.”
― Jarod Kintz, To be good at golf you must go full koala bear

“I never gave you a chance to set fire to the dry tinder of my heart
did it myself
doused myself in gasoline, went searching for a match
I found it in her
a familiar beast of whiskey and jealousy”
― Stephanie Greene

“Bonnie was so drunk she could hardly walk. ... I had always felt sorry for her, having to live the life she was living, never a minute’s peace. She had often told me she was happier when she had something to drink. So I did not blame her for staying drunk most of the time, if it made her feel better.”
― Blanche Caldwell Barrow, My Life with Bonnie and Clyde

“Music contains zero alcohol, yet it gets people high.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The devil wants me dead but he will settle for drunk.”
― Patrick Harrington, Recreating Patrick: An Inside Job

“I'm addicted to cheese. It's a real addiction, but I get no love like the alcoholics.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“I take a long pull on the jug. Like Scotch and wild roses, like man and woman the same, the perfect mix. I drink it down.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“...de aztán eszébe jutott, hogy az ital nagy egyenlősítő, mindig is összehozott össze nem illő embereket.”
― Douglas Stuart, Beyond the Himalayas

“He was ready to take a pothead, alcoholic, heroin-addicted, whoremonger, a bulimic, cigarette smoking womanizer, and form the deepest type of bond that could be made and had no exit clauses or reversals. He had pursued me when others would’ve given up a thousand times. He made a covenant with me, signed by a pen dipped in His own blood, a covenant forged by His love, in His love, and through His love. It is a love story written by the Author of the universe.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Narcissists and alcohol often form a toxic blend, where the mirror of self-absorption reflects through the haze of addiction.”
― Tracy Malone

“Alcohol is popular, but alcoholics are not.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“An alcoholic is dependent on alcohol. Alcohol is dependent on the bottle.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“I drank because it was lovely and I needed a calm to understand the reality.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“Drown in drinks, and life is lost. Drink up life, and drinks are lost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Don't be an alcoholic, be a writer - hundred times the intoxication, without the primitiveness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“when I’m drunk, I often tell the truth.”
― Rebecca Ryder, The Dream To End All Dreams

“I found you in our truth. Running sideways for a broken muse who loved strangers as much as alcohol.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“You don’t come into AA because everything’s working out fantastic.”
― Dax Shepard

“Metal music is like alcohol: the more you consume it, the heavier you can tolerate it.”
― Criss Jami

“Some people worship Christ as god,
some Allah, Jehovah or Krishna,
some obsess over comicbook figures,
others submit to alcohol or dollar.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop