Alcohol
Quotes - A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into
“A
very brief enthusiasm sprang up for bringing tiny bottles of rum into the
dining room and adding the rum to the dinner coffee.”
―
Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
“People
drink to speed up life, get it over with as quickly as possible, almost as if
we know there is another one coming.”
―
Jack Freestone
“I
was the stardust. He was the moonshine. The thing I need to sleep at night.”
―
Dominic Riccitello
“I
found you in our truth. Running sideways for a broken muse who loved strangers
as much as alcohol.”
―
Dominic Riccitello
“In
those days I would drink eight pints of Guinness in the course of an evening,
stagger back to my bed,and then live through that dreadful and totally
disconcerting ordeal of spinning in outer space every time I closed my eyes.Did
this happen to you? It must have.You'd close them for a few moments, hoping to
go off to sleep, but your entire body would feel as though it was literally
going into rotation - like you were on an out-of-control space-walk- and would
continue to spin at a fast-increasing velocity until you opened your eyes and
struggled to regain your bearings.Then you'd have another go, closing your eyes
and hoping to lose consciousness before the spinning became unbearable, but
easily having to pull yourself around a few times.Eventually, you would lose
consciousness and disappear into a black hole.”
―
Stuart Prebble, Grumpy Old Men: The Secret Diary
“Don't
mind her, Old Charlie bellowed. Only thing she thinks is fun is beer.”
―
Zenna Henderson, Ingathering: The Complete People Stories
“If
life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then find someone whose life has given
them vodka and have a party!”
―
Anya Boszczyk
“When
you are really drinking you get annoyed at how many times you need to get up to
refill your drink because the activity you have chosen while drinking has
overcome the drinking itself”
―
Jack Freestone
“She'd
been surprised to find that Coors Light was delicious.”
―
Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere
“You
were like fine wine, but cheap wine gets you drunk faster.”
―
Dominic Riccitello
“People
view all things, all events in terms of what they value in life, with that as
their standard. I look at everything through the eyes of sake. Gazing far off
at a mountain, I think how I’d like a little drink; I see some nice vegetables
and think how well they’d go with the sake. If I had such-and-such sum, I could
polish off a flask; if I had this much, I could buy a bottle. You may laugh,
but that’s just the way I am—nothing I can do about it.”
―
Santōka Taneda, For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with
Excerpts from His Diary
“Put
a beetle in alcohol, and you have a scarab; put a Mississippian in alcohol, and
you have a gentleman-”
―
William Faulkner, Sanctuary
“We
ate, Naram adding some gin to his tea before drinking it.
I
scrunched my face. "I can't believe you're still able to drink like
that."
He
laughs. "The trick is to never stop. Pickles the liver and keeps you young
forever.”
―
L.E. Eldridge, A Yulean Sisters Guide to Getting Married
“It's
a boozy night, and the regulars are practically dry-humping the bar.”
―
Stacey Richter, MY DATE WITH SATAN: Stories
“Mr.
Nighbert took an overdose of sleeping pills, drank a bottle of alcohol, tied a
plastic bag around his head and fell away from everything on a couch in his
bedroom.”
―
Peter Sotos, 1. Obviates: Predicate, Show Adult
“I
sip my wine as look at the sky and hope you’re alright. Just like all those
times I sat and looked you dead in the eye.”
―
Dominic Riccitello
“I
thus feared it was only a matter of time before I felt such desolation
again—that feeling of being so utterly alone and without hope—that I was
willing to forgo all moderation once more and dive headfirst into that sea of
alcohol, wanting nothing more than to drown in it. And who knows, maybe next
time I’d succeed.”
―
Keijo Kangur, Broken: Twenty Pieces
“I
was always told the problems with alcohol only come when you stop. It’s a
vindictive lover, throwing your belongings out the window when you leave her.”
―
Bea Fitzgerald, Then Things Went Dark
“Every
parent knows about the humorous jokes about mama juice, a.k.a. wine, or how at
the end of every long day, a glass of cheap wine is a reward. “What about dads,
though?” I ask myself. It seems society sends the message that dads can drink,
no matter what they do, or they are not manly enough if they can’t handle their
liquor. If the game is on, drink. If you are hanging with the guys, drink. Not
feeling manly enough? Drink more and drink harder.”
―
Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to
Lasting Legacy
“Alcohol
derailed me from giving quality to the priorities in my life. I was able to
keep the priorities in order, but they were suffering because I was suffering.
Experiencing dueling priorities, as I call it, is like not having a priority at
all. If what you are called to do has to split time with something else, then
your calling can never fully be what it is supposed to become. I do not wish
this on anyone.”
―
Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to
Lasting Legacy
“Though
my siblings agree that I can be a cunt when I am drunk, they seem to miss the
point that they can be cunts when they are sober.”
―
Jack Freestone
“A
drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.”
―
Thomas Fuller
“Bob
kept a bottle of something in his desk the way professors do in movies about
professors. But she knew that her husband didn't really like drinking with Bob.
"The man drinks to annihilate himself," he said one night, coming
home from a faculty party that went on for too long, mostly because of Bob.”
―
Alison Espach, The Wedding People
