947 Quotes About Alcohol

The hangovers are the price I pay. Each skull-splitting excursion down my personal rabbit hole to hell is a guilt tinged reminder of every little fuckin' thing I've ever done wrong and never made amends for.

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They said she was cruel because she’d been harmed in the past. They claimed she was cold because she just hadn’t met the right fellow to warm her. Anything to soften her edges and sweeten her disposition—and what was the fun in that? Zoya’s company was like strong drink. Bracing— and best to abstain if you couldn’t handle the kick.

No one ever found any answers at the bottom of a bottle. Not the point, of course. The point of reaching the bottom of the bottle is generally to forget the questions.

Like alcohol, desperation can make a coward seem courageous.

I drown myself in liquids of all kindPour me another fiery glass of wineVolcanoes flash before my eyesI fear the love I left behind

Then all at once I'm crushed by sadness. Because I realised none of this is actually me or permanent or real. I don't belong here; I can't belong. It was only the alcohol that made me believe - for a brief moment - that I could.

It might be in a saloon with jingled townsmen, or with a genial railroad man well lighted up and armed with pocket flasks, or with a bunch of alki stiffs in a hang-out. Yes; and it might be in a prohibition state...

I do not like anis," Pablo said.The acrid smell had carried across the table and he had picked out the one familiar component."Good," said Robert Jordan. "Because there is very little left.""What drink is that?" the gypsy asked."A medicine," Robert Jordan said. "Do you want to taste it?""What is it for?""For everything," Robert Jordan said. "It cures everything. If you have anything wrong this will cure it.