342 Quotes About Alcoholism

Aunque nos conociéramos... hacíamos como si no. Esperábamos en la cola, mientras las otras compraban jarabe para la tos de hidrato de terpina con codeína y firmaban en el aparatoso libro de registro. A veces con el nombre verdadero, a veces con uno inventado. Me daba cuenta de que, igual que yo, tampoco sabían cuál de las dos cosas era peor. A veces veía a la misma mujer en cuatro o cinco farmacias distintas en un solo día. Mujeres o madres de adictos.

The life of the sane, average man was dull, worse than death. There seemed to be no possible alternative. Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals. I went back to my shack and drank ...

I had never before considered the possibility that I might never even want a drink yet still be left with this horrible, throbbing vacancy in the center of my being, right where my mental health and contentment were supposed to be.

My alcoholism is in no way any sort of excuse for any of my past behaviors. Just because I quit drinking, my life was not suddenly transformed into a tabula rasa-if I have wronged someone, drunk or not, then the responsibility for this lies squarely with me. And I must do my best to set things square with that person. .......And just because I am sober now does not mean anyone else should care. I do not deserve a cookie for finally trying to act like a decent human being.

Min mor snakker højere og højere, i takt med at hun bliver mere beruset. Hun får en hæslig stemme, som ikke er hendes. Den stemme hader jeg mest af alt i hele verden. En stemme der ændrer sig, når den har fået en slurk af det, den godt kan lide. En stemme der bliver venlig. En stemme der lyder som frygtløshedens stemme. En stemme med maske på. Selv hendes hilsen ændrer sig. Hej. Jeg har lyttet alt for meget til den stemme.

The records were in Danish, sadly, but a foreign language was no obstacle at five a.m. with a healthy buzz going.

A person who is alcoholic usually has the feeling of inferiority that results in a person feeling extremely depressed.

What I want to say here is that there is a place beyond control and beyond concern that people can go, where the values and the needs of everyday life change completely. Where what matters is moment-to-moment survival to avoid mind pain.

...she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days.