Alcoholism Quotes - Page 9

• Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

  Chris Wooding

  Soldier, Firsts, Stage

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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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• Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Winter, Despair, Seasons

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• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Lying, True Evil, Two

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• anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Drinking, Poor, Extras

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• What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Mind, Able

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.

  Marguerite Duras

  Drinking, Thinking, Killing

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

  Marguerite Duras

  Space, Faces, Drink

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.9, Pantheon

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• The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fun, Drinking, Swimming

  Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

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• Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

  Margaret Halsey

  Patterns, Liquor, Employed

  Margaret Halsey (1977). “No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a Wasp”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

  Margaret Halsey

  Drinking, Flocks, Spokes

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• Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.

  Kay Boyle

  Drinking, Deceiver, One Thing

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• My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Reality, Years, Sobriety

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Drinking, Alcohol, Comforting

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Childhood, Shame, Embarrassment

  "INTERVIEW: Augusten Burroughs, Author of ‘Running With Scissors’". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.ropeofsilicon.com. October 27, 2006.

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• I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Thinking, Land

  Source: thequietus.com

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• It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".

  Nikki Sixx

  Football, Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Order, Goering, Nazism

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• Drunkenness, the ruin of reason, the destruction of strength, premature old age, momentary death.

  Saint Basil

  Age, Ruins, Reason

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• Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Summer, Dostoyevsky, Persons

  Roy Blount, Jr. (2013). “Now, Where Were We?”, p.250, Villard

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• During my drinking decades, I lived like a pig. My room was a hazardous pile of stilettos, tube tops, wine bottles, ashtrays, and old magazines. I valued nothing. Everything that came into my life was disposable: clothes, opportunities, people. My bedroom looked as if my insides had spilled out onto the floor.

  Glennon Melton

  Drinking, Wine, Opportunity

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• I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

  Barry Hannah

  Hate, My Family, Genes

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

  Henry Fielding

  Wine, Alcohol, Enemy

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• We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.

  Conrad Black

  Commitment, Numbers, Views

  "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.

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• No longer is drinking an art with Americans; once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Art, Drinking, Taste

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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