112 Quotes About Alcoholic

Older drunks tend to live in the past, mainly because they are destroying the present, and have little care for the future.

As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.

I'm an old man now. Old on the inside. I'm a drunk, and I hate to tell you, but I'm not prepared to change. So you have to figure out if you want to forgive me and love me like I am, or run away again. Or hell, stay here and hate me. Just...know that I love you the best way I know how. I always have. I do the best I can.

No sober day is wasted.A familiar thought―it was a bedtime mantra, a grace note on which to end her days. No sober day is wasted, meaning that whatever else she'd done or failed to do on any given day, there was always this achievement to reflect on in the violet hour.

They say getting sober in AA is simple, but not easy. Just like winning the lottery, I guess.

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.

Unfortunately, it's not against the law in this country to drink yourself to death.

You know what they say at [Alcoholics Anonymous] meetings. Coincidence is your Higher Power acting with anonymity.''I didn't know you were in the program.''I'm not. I go for the dialogue. It's great material.

I am wondering; an alcoholic and a ‘craziholic’ who is the greater ‘holic’? In other words, the dizziness of drunkenness and the dazedness of madness, which is the greater ‘ness’?