Alcoholism Quotes - Page 6

• I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

  Malachy McCourt

  Suicide, People, Awful

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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

  Recovery, Disease, Incurable Disease

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Disease

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• Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Morning, Believe, Mean

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• Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Monsters

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• The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

  Malachy McCourt

  Lying, Drinking, Infidelity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

  Chris Prentiss

  Thinking, Ideas, Disease

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.107, BookBaby

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• For some, bottles of liquor gleam like the towers of Eldorado.

  Mason Cooley

  Towers, Bottles, Gleam

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• Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

  Mason Cooley

  Drama, Bottles, Endless

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• I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

  Princess Diana

  People, Drug, Affinity

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• Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

  Koren Zailckas

  Drinking, Firsts, Remember

  Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.12, Penguin

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• . . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.

  Tom McCall

  War, Jail, Long Ago

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• If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

  Amy Sedaris

  Party, Drinking, Cat

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• There have been so many stories about alcoholism and drugs. Eating disorders are also a form of abuse, but rarely a theme in feature films that aren't documentaries.

  Sanna Lenken

  Drug, Abuse, Eating Disorder

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Real, Grandfather

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• Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.

  Dorothy B. Hughes

  Nice, Drinking, Adults

  Dorothy B. Hughes (2017). “In a Lonely Place”, p.102, New York Review of Books

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• You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

  Alice Walker

  Hurt, Drinking, Bottles

  Alice Walker (2003). “The third life of Grange Copeland: Meridian ; The color purple”

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• Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Drinking, Alcohol, Mind

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.31, Bantam

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• if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Lying, Drinking, Men

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

  Rebecca West

  Drinking, Addiction, Alcohol

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.373, Open Road Media

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• Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.

  Stacy Barthe

  Suicide, Believe, Talking

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• there is this malign curse laid on dipsomaniacs. That they must absolutely have a drink: in order to feel strong enough to stop drinking.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Strong, Drinking, Order

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• This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe, than the stolen generation, because we are literally losing thousands and thousands of our indigenous brothers and sisters to the effects of welfare – drugs, gunja, low morale, alcoholism. I see it everyday and it can stop. The solution is education, training and a guaranteed opportunity.

  Andrew Forrest

  Brother, Business, Believe

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• The truth is, poverty's the environment for alcoholism, and the reservations aren't rich. Maybe cleaning people up in fiction is just as dangerous as presenting them unfiltered.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  People, Fiction, Poverty

  Source: slushpile.net

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• My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.

  James Cagney

  Dad, Stress, Ideas

  James Cagney (1976). “Cagney by Cagney”

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