Alcoholism Quotes

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. (Steven Soderbergh)
The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
Vance Havner
Welcome baby, It's your turn to live, They lie in wait for you, chicken pox, whooping cough, smallpox, Malaria, TB, heart disease, cancer, and so on. Unemployment, hunger, and so on. Train wrecks, bus accidents, plane crashes, work accidents, Earthquakes, floods, droughts, and so on. Heartbreak, alcoholism, and so on. Nightsticks, prison doors, and so on. They lie in wait for you, the atom bomb, and so on. Welcome baby, It's your turn to live. They lie in wait for you, socialism, communism, and so on. View quote
Nâzım Hikmet
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The disease concept of homosexuality-as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide-conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy-just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics. View quote
Thomas Szasz
I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open. View quote
Robin Williams
Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair. View quote
Jeffrey Eugenides
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. View quote
Conan O'Brien
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. View quote
Alex Campbell
I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. (Christopher Atkins)
Children are coming to school with trauma, everyday trauma, that they live under: violence in the homes, alcoholism in the community, unemployment thats 80 percent, not just during the recession. We need to help treat that before they can even go sit in a class and learn about math. View quote
Denise Juneau
My mother is still battling alcoholism. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others. View quote
Richard Kiel
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. View quote
Liza Minnelli
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. View quote
Marguerite Duras
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. View quote
Simone Weil
I'm not running to bash George Bush. A lot of Americans really love him. They love what he represents, a man who's overcome adversity in his life from alcoholism and pulled his marriage back together and - and moved forward. But I'm running because I think this country must have better leadership in moving forward. View quote
Wesley Clark
A thoroughly readable and rich introduction to...the process of recovery from alcoholism. View quote
Arnold M. Ludwig
Ludwig offers a unique integrative perspective which encompasses the clinical wisdom accrued through twenty-five years of experience as an alcoholism researcher and therapist.... The book serves as an excellent primer for clinicians and recovering persons on a practical and multiperspective approach to alcoholism treatment. View quote
Arnold M. Ludwig
Useful for physicians who wish to understand alcoholism and the recovery process, and to gain anecdotal evidence of this process, which is presented by using the words of recovering alcoholics....Can be of great value to those many physicians faced with individual patients who are drinking too much. (Arnold M. Ludwig)
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. View quote
Kristin Davis
Addictions come from shortages in infancy. People try to compensate this way. Alcoholism is generally produced from a shortage in mother's milk. And heroin addiction is usually due to a lack of being, the absence of recognition; the drug fills the emptiness of not being loved. View quote
Alejandro Jodorowsky
At first to prescription medication and then to pretty much everything. I'd had several years of being in control of my alcoholism. I was pretty reliable; I took care of business. And then when my personal life got out of hand, I just got loaded. So I went through a couple of years of depression again. I didn't eat, I drank a lot, I started taking pills, and at some point you just get sick of it. I was pretty sure that nothing like that would ever happen to me. Then I ended up having as bad a problem as anyone's going to have and still be alive. So I realized I'm not special. I'm just like everybody else. View quote
Chris Cornell
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)