342 Quotes About Alcoholism

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

Do you think it was my fault that she drank?" my father asked not long ago. It's the assumption of an amateur, someone who stops after his second vodka tonic and quits taking his pain medication before the prescription runs out. It's almost laughable, this insistence on a reason. I think my mother was lonely without her children—her fan club. But I think she drank because she was an alcoholic.

John Barleycorn's inhibition rises like a wall betweenone's immediate desires and long-learned morality.

Why drink and drive when you can smoke and fly?

Following dinner, we tidied up and Mom and Dad went straight to bed at about eight o’clock. The house was dark and spooky on Sunday nights. Dad said he had to go to bed early on Sundays because he had “the yips.” Eventually I took that to mean he was hungover and had to get his sleep to be ready for another week of work.

I didn't write the Twelve Steps. I had nothing to do with the writing of them. But I think I probably had something to do with them indirectly.

My biggest genetic legacy may be alcohol.

And it hits me, the reason for all the metaphors in recovery. Because the bald truth would be too terrifying. What she's saying is I may need an all-new career and all-new friends. 85

Exactly! What you are doing is 'telling on your addict.' p 71