342 Quotes About Alcoholism

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.

The booze makes you a liar and the lies you tell yourself are the biggest.

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.[Mexico City concert, June 2011]

Logan couldn’t remember when a few drinks became a bottle and then two bottles every night. He couldn’t point to one single moment or event as the cause. From his first drink at fourteen, alcohol began soaking into his skin, the moisture rotting him on the inside. Every few years he’d use a chisel to hack away all the wet, unsound wood without trying to find the source of the moisture. The rot always came back, stronger than before.

Amo i Martini, ma due al massimo. Tre, e sono sotto al tavolo. Quattro, e sono sotto il cameriere.

Un uomo intelligente a volte è costretto a ubriacarsi per passare il tempo tra gli idioti.

Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.