Quotes on Alcohol Addiction

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

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.

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

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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.

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 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.

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

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.'

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

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

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.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

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

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

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

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

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

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.