1,261 Quotes About Drinking

If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.

Does love make the world go around? Well yes. But whiskey makes it go around twice as fast.

The lines of her tears sparkled on her cheeks. "I am a prisoner here," she said. I took the chair across from her and watched her cry. I sat upright, one hand on the table's surface and the other around my drink. I felt the ecstasy of a dancer, but I kept still.

I didn't drink because I knew that if I jumped into a bottle, I'd pull the cork in after me.

They used to draw a skull at the bottom of a tankard, so when you’d drained it you’d be reminded you were going to die someday.

Quando il ristorante diventa una tortura. Per un friulano è inconcepibile: se volete condannarlo al dolore eterno, fategli trovare un posto dove il bevi non sia libero.

Orfeo: – Se non fossi astemio, adesso berrei per dimenticare.Drago: – Dio in salmì, ma è proprio quello che vogliono, Orfeo. La paura. Invece noi dobbiamo restare lucidi.Si vedeva che Orfeo era un volgare consumatore di H2O. Gli era uscita una frase senza senso. In Friuli si beve per ricordare meglio, altro che dimenticare, si disse Furlan raddrizzandosi

As we continued drinking, my understanding improved significantly. At some point I found myself totally immersed in the Russian conversation, almost unaware that I was speaking a foreign language. It was not that I knew more words, but I seemed more able to grasp the overall narrative – filling in the language gaps with my own drunken version of whatever was being said at the table.

Being wasted is a great way to visit a place for the first time, I realised – everything is illuminated in a special light and the impressions are much stronger.