Top Alcoholism Quotes

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 t...

Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-ti...

Alcoholism Definition

(n.) A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

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

You never turn away family, no matter how f***ed up they are.

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease...

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 ex...

Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

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.

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

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

Life is better when you're drunk. I ought to become an alcoholic.

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 others discover the roots of their addicti...

My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.

Drunkenness is better for the body than physic! Drink always, and you shall never die!

Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just tha...

If you can stop using substance or stop your addictive behavior for extended periods of time without craving, you are not dependent. You are dependent only if you can't stop without physical or psycho...

The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only...

In this way, the Church was a true reflection of the whole of Russian society. The KGB and the Russian people had penetrated each other to such an extent that they could not be separated. The culture...

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years...

I don't have to live that way anymore