342 Quotes About Alcoholism

The term was ‘functional drunk,’ and as far as he was concerned, as long as he was functioning he was going to be drunk.

I did not drink because of my problems. I had problems because I drank. It would take me twenty-three years to figure that out.

I'm tired of putting up With your sober wit Tired of looking at you Through an alcoholic haze You better change I'm begging you please 'Cause if you don't start drinkin' I'm gonna leave

An addict newly separated from their thing, whether it's drinking, drugs, throwing up ten times a day or anything else is like a person with no head. Your entire identity goes M.I.A. once you're no longer doing it.

If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.

It's amazing how fearless you can be when you want something bad enough, the lengths to which you'll go, the grit you'll put into the scheming and maneuvering. That's determination for you. I would have made a good bounty hunter.

Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You're like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you'll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal.

When you're in the clutches of a drinking problem you don't really sit around thinking, I should really knock this shit off and go get my Eastern philosophy on. On your to-do list, pursuing a higher state of consciousness doesn't really rank. It's more like, put on Led Zeppelin 4 and hand me some of that Root Beer Schnapps.

One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The next, I'm one who has swallowed liquor. I'm a rebel. I'm a line-crosser.