342 Quotes About Alcoholism

The organization called Alcoholics Anonymous is doing a wonderful job in trying to rehabilitate some of these men.

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

Some of our endeavours to eliminate or forget our problems invite more problems.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

When people view their lives as insignificant, they escape using pleasure.

We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do.

Fear, poverty, alcoholism, loneliness are terminal illnesses. Emergencies, in fact.

- Mr. Alakbarov, how much is the rent for this fantastic apartment?- Madam, this is the red wine aisle of the grocery store.

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)