When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

— Chris Prentiss

When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before? I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you'll get through anything.

— Meredith Bell

When you are young your body cannot handle alcohol, and when you get old your mind cannot handle it. Either way, alcohol has its way.

— Robert Black

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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.

— Craig Ferguson

Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic?

— Charles Jackson

Wine?" said Zoe. "At two in the afternoon?"" I've decided to become an alcoholic. Just for the duration of my middle years." She filled a glass and rested it on the edge of the bathroom sink. "That's yours.

— Mo Hayder

Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.

— Sidney Knight

Wynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk, and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released, so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

— Michelle Tea

You are giving up nothing! You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

— Liz Hemingway