342 Quotes About Alcoholism

I tried to book a flight to her mind, but I'm not on the list.And now I'm terminal: I'm breathing brandy.I've incorporated another tally mark on my wrist. I get my vitamins in: colored capsules I call candy.Life is just a bunch of dashes-- Interrupted sentences with no finish line.But at least if you wet your eyelashes,You can get a cinematic look in life.

I tried to book a flight to her mind, but I’m not on the list. And now I’m terminal: I’m breathing brandy.I’ve incorporated another tally mark on my wrist.I get my vitamins in: colored capsules I call candy.Life is just a bunch of dashes— Interrupted sentences with no finish line.But at least if you wet your eyelashes, You can get a cinematic look in life.

The inner wars, and the outer ones, go on while I pray and struggle; sometimes in the middle of a dark night of the soul I wonder how they became my wars to fight. And then I hear a voice that says, “Why not me?

I need a drink. Vodka is the only thing that makes everything go away. Vodka is that delightful, black, ink-out paint that stops everything hurting. Vodka gives me black, dreamless sleep. Like death...like beautiful suicide.

God cannot be happy when we ignore such issues as crime, corruption, alcoholism and child neglect

He had, he verily believed, overcome all tendency to fly to liquor - which, indeed, he had never done from taste, but merely as an escape from intolerable misery of the mind.

It doesn’t occur to me that alcohol might be unhinging me, that drinking at the rate I am can induce depression, impulsive behaviour, and symptoms of bipolar and borderline personality disorder.

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

Right," I said, but it didn't feel very right. I didn't want to make it. I wanted to lie down with it and strangle it and kill it and save it and nurse it and kill it again and I wanted to go and forget where I was going and I wanted to change my name and forget my face and I wanted to drink and get my head ruined but I certainly hadn't thought about making it. That wasn't anything I'd ever sought out to do.