Quotes About Alcoholism Recovery

#1. I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#2. 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

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

Augusten Burroughs

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

Gordon Rouston

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

Carrie Fisher

#6. It will all be over in 2 weeks

Ken Novak

#7. Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?

Catherine Lockwood

#8. The delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#9. You're keeping me going, Lara Jean. Josh looks at me and I feel it all, every memory, every moment we've ever shared.

Jenny Han

#10. 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

#11. Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Craig Ferguson

#12. Thanks for the information about what we call business.

Dashiell Hammett

#13. The devil is a professional in destroying lives, but the problem is that people themselves allow him to destroy their lives

Sunday Adelaja

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. I had to get honest enough to admit it: I relied on food more than I relied on God. I craved food more than I craved God. Food was my comfort. Food was my reward. Food was my joy. Food was what I turned to in times of stress, sadness, and even in times of happiness.

Lysa TerKeurst

#18. Forever [is] so many different things. It is always changing ... it is twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wish would last and last

Sarah Dessen

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

Robert Black

#20. 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

#21. There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#22. One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity

Roddy Doyle

#23. I pawned the remote to my misery,
trading it in for liquor that was cheap;
screwdrivers for my vitamin c,
and a little bloodstream to my IV,
helping to soothe my lunacy

Phil Volatile

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

Beem Weeks

#25. I had an affinity for pandas. Something about clumsy vegetarians struck a chord with me.

Lish McBride

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

Srinivas Shenoy

#27. I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#28. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

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

David Stafford

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The idea of a priori moral judgements ('It is morally wrong to inflict gratuitous pain') is completely acceptable to the vast majority of human beings. Only a few philosophers would disagree.

William Boyd

#33. I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

Craig Ferguson

#34. Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, or the top of a mountain or on an underground train: having good stories to keep us company means the whole world.

Jen Campbell

#35. Even the most powerful woman needs a place to unwind.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#36. I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

Christopher Kimball

#37. There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Malachy McCourt

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

Brian Spellman