Alcoholism Addiction Recovery Quotes

#1. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.

Chris Prentiss

#2. Every unjust man is unjust against his will.

Plato

#3. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.

Beem Weeks

#4. This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Julia Child

#5. Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol.

Srinivas Shenoy

#6. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

#7. Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

David Stafford

#8. Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.

Tim Cowlishaw

#9. You [men] are not our protectors ... If you were, who would there be to protect us from?

Mary Edwards Walker

#10. Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Mariel Hemingway

#11. Form is the shape of content ...

Ben Shahn

#12. I couldn't stop so I quit.

Brian Spellman

#13. Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Irene Tomkinson

#14. Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.

Edwidge Danticat

#15. The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.

Augusten Burroughs

#16. Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places

Gordon Rouston

#17. Art for me is like breathing.

Yoko Ono

#18. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

#19. It will all be over in 2 weeks

Ken Novak

#20. I'm not good at accepting help.

Patricia Heaton

#21. I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.

Walter Hill

#22. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.

Chris Prentiss

#23. Working at Moschino has been great because I just have to deliver when I have to deliver.

Jeremy Scott

#24. The defense of the great works of Western literature can no longer be undertaken by central institutional power though it is hard to see how the normal operation of learned institutions, including recruitment can manage without them.

Harold Bloom

#25. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

#26. Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

Russell Brand

#27. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.

Kate Madison

#28. I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

Robert Black