Alcohol Addiction Quotes

I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and through recovery live a sober life. There is such a stigma attached to addiction and it was hard for me to both confront and overcome it. I am very proud and grateful that with the support of family and friends, I was able to do so.

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.

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, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

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.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

Do not let your fire go out.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

I think the scariest addiction on this planet is to alcohol. Because alcohol is a very addictive drug, and it ruins families, it ruins relationships. And it is socially acceptable, and it is easy to find. Controlled substances, other drugs are more difficult to get, and it's a crime to... to buy them. But alcohol is everywhere. And if you are unfortunate enough to become addicted to it, it can be disastrous. And there is still a stigma attached to alcohol addiction, or addiction in general. It is perceived as... an addict is perceived as somebody of weak moral fiber

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