342 Quotes About Alcoholism

I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.

Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it makes, alcohol's vow of kinship, that it will bridge your life to others, smooth the way, proves false. Fooled again: you're alone.

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

The only thing we chase our shots with are high-fives.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose your job. This bottle may cause you to get a divorce. This bottle may cause you to become homeless.

We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

You are giving up nothing! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.