Alcoholic Parent Quotes

#1. Any kid who grew up with an alcoholic parent will tell you how nauseating it feels never to know what it will be like when you come home.

Steve Largent

#2. the thing about having
an alcoholic parent
is an alcoholic parent
does not exist

simply
an alcoholic
who could not stay sober
long enough to raise their kids

Rupi Kaur

#3. Relax, Alex. He's an idiot, but he's family. I have to be nice to him - not because I want to or because he deserves it, but because he's my cousin.

Crafty Nichole

#4. If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Emile M. Cioran

#5. Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to - I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that.

George W. Bush

#6. The ego says, 'I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.

Eckhart Tolle

#7. I only need to know one thing. Am I going to need the flamethrower?

Rachel Caine

#8. Pretending to be someone you're not is like kissing a live grenade.
It feels smooth with your eyes closed, but remember, brother, like it or
not, you're still kissing Death. September Young, Into the flames

Mel Bossa

#9. I escape into sleep. Sleep is what I'll miss most when I die.

Clare Cavanagh

#10. And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Julia Quinn

#11. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Richard Holloway