Alcoholism Quotes

“Drunkenness”

“Wine in; truth out.”

“Alcoholism is the disease of more.”

“"Jesus," he said to himself. "Drunk for ten years."”

“Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.”

“"...and another little drink wouldn't do us any harm."”

“Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.”

“alcoholism”

“‘Tis not the eating, nor ‘tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.”

“Wikipedia: Alcoholism”

“In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink any more if I was dead.”

“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”

“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them. You will do shit that even the Devil would go "Dude...."”

“It's not like anything you can beat—no matter how hard you try. … It's just that you can't really help them and it's so discouraging—it's all for nothing.”

“Alcohol abuse and alcoholism have a different physiologic effect on women than on men. Societal attitudes about women and alcohol and internal (self-perception) and external (environmental) factors can create barriers to the detection and treatment of female alcohol abusers.”

“Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved.”

“In a few hours it would be midnight and I would have gone a full day on my own without a drink. And one day could mean two. If I stayed off the booze, I knew I'd be able to write again.
I started the Dart and headed north up the Coast Highway. There was a blueness to the ocean I had never noticed before.”

“Negative mood states — depressed, anxious, angry, frustrated, etc. — as well as positive mood states (such as happiness) are well-known triggers for alcohol use in alcoholics as well as heavy drinkers or people who don’t have alcohol-related problems. There are plenty of research supporting these associations.”

“Mrs. Morse had been drinking all the afternoon; while she dressed to go out, she felt herself rising pleasurably from drowsiness to high spirits. But as she came out into the street the effects of the whisky deserted her completely, and she was filled with a slow, grinding wretchedness so horrible that she stood swaying on the pavement, unable for a moment to move forward.”

“Jack London, (1913), John Barleycorn pages: 286–287, place: New York, publisher: The Century Company illustrated by H. T. Dunn; text at archive.org”