342 Quotes About Alcoholism

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.

Fortunately, some people eat a lot or drink only on special occasions. Unfortunately, they see every—or almost every—day of their lives as a special occasion.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

This is a good place," he said."There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Slavery often masquerades as freedom.

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.

He had grown up in a home without love, filled with petty cruelties and alcoholism and despair, a place where dreams of a better life were absurd and worthy of venomous critique from his own father.