Quotes About Alcoholism Addiction

#1. We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

James Dickey

#2. Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.

David Norman

#3. 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

#4. Alcoholism, of course, is more than a habit. It's a physical addiction with psychological and perhaps genetic roots.

Charles Duhigg

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

Augusten Burroughs

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

Gordon Rouston

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

Carrie Fisher

#8. It will all be over in 2 weeks

Ken Novak

#9. One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

Billy Graham

#10. When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help other discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.

Chris Prentiss

#11. 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

#12. Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I had this great idea: I should get a job. Freelancing came with freedom, but maybe what I required was a cage.

Sarah Hepola

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

Robert Black

#18. 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

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

Brian Spellman

#20. The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior.

Neil T. Anderson

#21. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.

Liz Hemingway

#22. It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

Sarah Hepola

#23. Robert Hayward THE THIRTEENTH STEP Ancient Solutions to Contemporary Problems of Alcoholism and Addiction Using the Timeless Wisdom of the Native American Church Ceremony

Robert Hayward

#24. 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

#25. The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

Caroline Knapp

#26. 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

#27. I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Theia Mey

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

David Stafford

#29. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

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

Srinivas Shenoy

#31. But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Truman Capote

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

Beem Weeks

#33. Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time.

Augusten Burroughs