Quotes About Recovery From Alcoholism

#1. 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

#2. I had the wonderful benefit of growing up with parents that not only encouraged me to follow my dreams, but supported my aspirations through school and beyond.

Jason Graves

#3. But we will lose the millions of records being created daily in a dizzying array of electronic forms unless we find a way to preserve and keep them accessible indefinitely.

Allen Weinstein

#4. 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

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

Catherine Lockwood

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

Brian Spellman

#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. Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

Judith Martin

#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 will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. If ignorance is bliss, believing lies is orgasmic.

Cassia Leo

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

Robert Black

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

David Stafford

#20. 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

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

Roddy Doyle

#22. 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

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

Beem Weeks

#24. Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

Colman McCarthy

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

Srinivas Shenoy

#26. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

#27. I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

Denzel Washington

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. But the rules are made by people who couldn't win without 'em.

Jeff Lindsay

#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

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Henry Samueli

#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. Intuitions are messenger of opportunities. Hit them with your ability.

Kishore Bansal

#35. This is the power of a kiss:
It does not have the power to kill you. But it has the power to bring you to life

David Levithan