Alcoholic Quotes

“Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall is painfully perfect.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

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

“Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.”
― David Stafford

“Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“And I was sure it was the drink that irrigated White’s self-sabotage, for it is the common trait of alcoholics to make plans and promises, to oneself, to others, fervently, sincerely, and in hope of redemption. Promises that are broken, again and again, through fear, through loss of nerve, through any number of things that hide that deep desire, at heart, to obliterate one’s broken self.”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“Like alcohol, desperation can make a coward seem courageous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I know an alcoholic is the worse, but sometimes I wonder if it's better to have a drinking father that lives at home, or a drinking father, that never comes around.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Somebody tells you they drink because they’re a failure, it ain’t so. They’re a failure because they drink. And they drink because it’s so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn’t empty, they never feel far from being happy.

("Bums")”
― William Kent Krueger, Twin Cities Noir

“It wasn't so much about breaking free of him, as it was about breaking free of me.”
― Grace W. Wroldson, So You Love an... Alcoholic?: Lessons for a Codependent

“The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“I was dating the same man over and over again, expecting a different relationship. Where's the sanity in that!?”
― Grace W. Wroldson, So You Love an . . . Alcoholic?: Lessons for a Codependent

“In my innocent cynicism I didn't see that Cleveland was not trying to look tough; he just didn't care. Which is to say, he knew what he was, and was, if not content with, at least resigned to knowing that he was an alcoholic. And an alcoholic is nothing if not sensitive to the proper time and place for his next drink; his death is one of the most carefully planned and prepared for events in the world.”
― Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

“Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?”
― Charles Jackson

“When he was a kid, it used to feel like his parents disappeared when the got drunk. As the levels of their glasses went down, he could sense them pulling away from him, as if they were together on the same boat, slowly pulling away from the shore where Oliver was left stranded, still himself, still boring, sensible Oliver, and he'd think, Please don't go, stay here with me, because his real mother was funny and his real father was smart, but they always went. First his dad got stupid and his mum got giggly, and then his mum got nasty and his dad got angry, and so it went until there was no point staying and Oliver went to watch movies in his bedroom. He'd had his own VCR in his bedroom. He'd had a privileged upbringing, had never wanted for anything.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.”
― Sally Courtnix, Brede: An erotic fairy tale

“Headaches are for sloths as hangovers for drunks.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Every morning, my hangover feels like being born again. My head throbs, like being squeezed and pushed out, fists trembling, throat grunting and wailing in protest of the light, screaming for the comfort of warm, dark silence.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, You Don't See Any of This

“The only thing we chase our shots with are high-fives.”
― Joe Buckler, xxx

“I use to drink every day without a care until I released the Demons that now I must bare”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

“Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, The Meditating Psychiatrist Who Tried to Kill Himself

“All that usually drew my eyes in his direction, for our entire life together, everything he had done, been, and said, that which made up “Dad” and was immanent in him, or in my view of him, whatever his appearance, all that was suddenly gone. He looked like a drunk who had put on a suit. He looked like an alcoholic his family had picked up, cleaned up, and taken along.”
― Karl Ove Knausgaard

“As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.”
― Stuart Rojstaczer, The Mathematician's Shiva

“Freedom doesn’t come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.”
― Beem Weeks

“If you drink anymore, you're going to be positively flammable.”
― Michaela Haze, The Bleeders

“It was an accident mummy” I cry out. She’s pulling me up by my hair and dragging me down the hall “So were you” she screams “you were a fucking accident, you ruined everything, you’re still ruining everything, it's all your fault" she pulls me into the kitchen and throws me down on to the floor.”
― Sarah Clay, Never Enough

“My mum used to say the three most important letters in my name were the EDN because if you rearrange them it spells END... and I was the end of everything good in her life”
― Sarah Clay, Never Enough

“Edwards knew that the constant spending and deliberate time-wasting was taking a toll. 'I know that if I get to the end of this year I'll have no dignity left at all,' he said. 'It's all gone. I live in a big fantasy world... It's sad.' He'd often end the day drinking even more to block out the world and allow him to get to sleep.”
― Rob Jovanovic, A Version of Reason: In Search of Richey Edwards