342 Quotes About Alcoholism

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.

my higher power never told me to get a shitty job in addition to being a miracle (sober alcoholic)

Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself

I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

He starts to tell Isaac about his sobriety, but something stops him. Like if he speaks the words aloud he’ll jinx it. Like he’ll piss his demons off and they’ll come lurking about, reenergized, and give him another beating.

And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too.

Seamus, don’t jump!