Alcohol Quotes - Alcohol is popular, but alcoholics are not

Alcohol Quotes - Alcohol is popular, but alcoholics are not

“The rich don’t have to kill to eat. They “employ” people, as they call it. The rich don’t do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody’s happy. They have beautiful women, the poor have ugly ones. Clothing aside, they’re the product of centuries. Easy to look at, well fed, well washed. After all these years, life can boast no greater accomplishment. It’s no use trying, we slide, we skid, we fall back into the alcohol that preserves the living and the dead, we get nowhere. It’s been proved. After all these centuries of watching our domestic animals coming into the world, laboring and dying before our eyes without anything more unusual ever happening to them either than taking up the same insipid fiasco where so many other animals had left off, we should have caught on. Endless waves of useless beings keep rising from deep down in the ages to die in front of our noses, and yet here we stay, hoping for something …”

― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“I take a long pull on the jug. Like Scotch and wild roses, like man and woman the same, the perfect mix. I drink it down.”

― Otessa Moshfegh

“This close, she could smell liquor on his breath. It made her skin crawl with half-remembered dread. Alcohol and men like Johann never mixed well. It emboldened them.”

― Allison Saft, A Dark and Drowning Tide

“Why do humans drink something that makes them more dumb?”

― Aidan Lucid, The Lost Son

“I abused alcohol and it abused me back.”

― D.C. Hyden, The Sober Addict

“Alcohol is popular, but alcoholics are not.”

― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“He took a drink and then another and then several, and, though life remained cloudy, the inside of the cloud began to be warm.”

― Larry McMurtry, Een stadje in het Westen, Deel 1: Lonesome Dove

“An alcoholic is dependent on alcohol. Alcohol is dependent on the bottle.”

― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The day they dropped Hoenikker’s fugging bomb on the Japanese a bum came in and tried to scrounge a drink. He wanted me to give him a drink on account of the world was coming to an end. So I mixed him an ‘End of the World Delight.’ I gave him about a half-pint of creme de menthe in a hollowed-out pineapple, with whipped cream and a cherry on top. ‘There, you pitiful son of a bitch,’ I said to him, ‘don’t ever say I never did anything for you.”

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat’s Cradle

“You can bring the blanket and your emotional support vodka.”

― Onley James, Unhinged

“I’ve seen statistics that Boomers drink a great deal more than their Millennial children and that Millennial alcohol use is declining year on year. It could be because Millennials have less disposable income. Or it could be that we need all our wits about us to navigate life’s many challenges.”

― I.M. Millennial, A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir

“Regret Roulette by Stewart Stafford

Evening's breath caressed in,

Across a mind's cracked land,

On raven's wing in twilight air,

A doused flame's colder hand.

Dead-end gallery of exit signs,

Contrition's dog whistle song,

Eye of Horus in a looking glass,

Blindfolds of a corrupted throng.

Feral brunch on a sheepish plate,

The curate's egg fried with shell,

Bellini confession, in vino veritas,

Burnt offerings to show-and-tell.

― Stewart Stafford

“There’s a unique clarity that the fog of alcohol conveys; a spiritual plane that can only be reached through substance, as the body, which it numbs, creates interference to the more, unable to process what’s here and now.”

― Scott Thompson, Lost in ‘96

“Like a Baptist at a liquor store, my greatest urge was to avoid being seen.”

― Valentine Glass, Jarring Sex

“What passed for confidence was frequently an alcoholic haze through which nothing touched her deeply.”

― Michael Reynolds, Hemingway: The Paris Years by Michael Reynolds

“When young some of those I dated thought that I was "sweeter" when drinking. They would ply me with bottom shelf vodka. Like it was a $7 love potion. Burt Reynolds once apologized to all that "met him in the 70s." I could do the same for the 90s. When my emotional vulnerability came out of a bottle.”

― Damon Thomas, Some Books Are Not For Sale

“comedy = tragedy + 3 months or 3 margaritas”

― Karen Salmansohn, Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for When You're Feeling Unglued

“I drank because it was lovely and I needed a calm to understand the reality.”

― Dominic Riccitello

“Drown in drinks, and life is lost. Drink up life, and drinks are lost.”

― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“I'd rather have a beer than my wife. Now that's refreshingly honest.”

― Anthony T. Hincks

“Whatever he had been and whatever he'd been called, he was gone, so I did what usually I did around death which was to forget all about it. The whole shambles - as in the old meaning of shambles, as in slaughterhouse, blood-house, meat market, business-as-usual - once again took hold. Deciding to miss my French night class, I put on my make-up and got ready to go to the club. This was to the brightest, the busiest, the most popular of the eleven drinking-clubs existing in our small area and as for going: drinking clubs were the exact places you would go, exactly what you would do, when both hyper and deadened and in need of alcohol.”

― Anna Burns, Milkman

“The way I see it there are three ways to maintain yourself in the present moment: Firstly, you can meditate. Secondly, you can exercise. Meditation makes people want to exercise, that is why I listed it as number one. Thirdly, and this will probably cause a lot of disagreement, is to drink alcohol. My explanation for this is based upon experience with all three. If you do not mediate or exercise and you do not drink alcohol, then it has been my experience that over time you start to slip away from the present moment, and weaken mentally. Drinking will bring you back to it temporarily. That is why people say they need a good “blowout”, they need to reset. But of course, drinking can be a dangerous addiction and cause you to do unreasonable acts, plus damage your body.”

― Jack Freestone