Quotes about Alcoholism

Alcoholism is a well documented pathological reaction to unresolved grief. Votes: 7

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image. Votes: 6

Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having. Votes: 5

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. Votes: 5

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea. Votes: 4

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. Votes: 4

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. Votes: 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. Votes: 4

Alcoholism is the disease of more. Votes: 3

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. Votes: 3

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease. Votes: 3

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. Votes: 3

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. Votes: 3

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. Votes: 3

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. Votes: 3

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. Votes: 3

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Votes: 3

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. Votes: 3

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. Votes: 3

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof. Votes: 3

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Votes: 3

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten. Votes: 3

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. Votes: 3

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. Votes: 3

Alcoholism, tobacco, drunk driving, these things will always be with us. There's always going to be a certain percentage of any population that is addicted to certain substances. Votes: 3

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. Votes: 3

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right. Votes: 3

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. Votes: 3

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. Votes: 3

If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism. Votes: 3

The worst thing you can do for your loved one caught in alcoholism or addiction is to help the person continue in the deception that he or she is OK. Your best course of action is to speak the truth in love (see Eph. 4:15) and don't allow him or her to escape the consequences of wrong behavior. Votes: 3

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. Votes: 2

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 1

Beer and other forms of alcohol will do you no good. Their use will be expensive, will dull your conscience, and could lead to the disease called alcoholism, which is humiliating, dangerous, and even deadly... Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

My mother is still battling alcoholism. Votes: 0

Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. Votes: 0

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return. Votes: 0

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. Votes: 0

Ed Balls is like a drunk trying to drink his way out of alcoholism. Votes: 0

I went to rehab for alcoholism in wine country, just to keep my options open. Votes: 0

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky. Votes: 0

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it Votes: 0

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. Votes: 0

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Votes: 0

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society. Votes: 0

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. Votes: 0

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels. Votes: 0

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. Votes: 0

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. Votes: 0

Explain to me, if you will, why alcoholism is a disease but can only be treated by attending little spiritual meetings in basements. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Employing...nutrition and vitamin therapy...one of the nation's largest alcoholism treatment programs reports a 71% success rate. This contrasts with...(a) national...rate (of) 25% as reported by NIAAA. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think that the working hours and star pressures pushed a lot of people into drugs in those days. And there seemed to have been a lot of alcoholism. Votes: 0

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did. Votes: 0

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die. Votes: 0

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I saw people around me who were falling deeper and deeper into alcoholism and substance abuse. It's seductive because alcohol is amazing and drugs are amazing, they work so well. Votes: 0

Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting. Votes: 0

It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The subject of eating disorders is very common, and it is an abuse that affects all the people around the sick person, just like alcoholism. Family and friends also become co-addicted. Votes: 0

. . . 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. Votes: 0

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right? Votes: 0

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on. Votes: 0

It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism. Votes: -1