#alcohol

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #sentimentality-cruelty-ideology #men

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves? ↗

— Russell Brand

#drug-addiction #family #sympathy #family

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. ↗

— Stonewall Jackson

#alcohol #am #bullets #enemy #i

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#alcoholic #more #patient #pick #time

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#believe #disease #many #people #say

I once had a lot of hatred, mainly toward my father, an alcoholic. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#father #had #hatred #i #lot

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#disease #early #get #help #i

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. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#always #did #disease #early #get

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#christianity #european #great #narcotics #two

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years! ↗

— Ozzy Osbourne

#accounts #alcohol #attribute #better #body