#alcoholism

She'd either be a heartless mother and wife or a spineless enabler, when all she really wanted was the man she'd once believed him to be. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#choices-and-consequences #heartbreak #marriage #marriage

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#alcoholic #alcoholism #alcoholism-addiction-recovery #mad #miserable

We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#alcoholism #alienation #dependency #human #incidence

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 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

My mother is still battling alcoholism. ↗

— Patrick J. Kennedy

#battling #mother #still

I didn't know what exhausted me emotionally until that moment, and I realized that the experience of being a soldier, with unlimited license for excess, excessive violence, excessive sex, was a blueprint for self-destruction. Because then I began to wake up to the idea that manhood, as passed onto me by my father, my scoutmaster, my gym instructor, my army sergeant, that vision of manhood was a blueprint for self-destruction and a lie, and that was a burden that I was no longer able to carry. It was too difficult for me to be that hard. I said, "OK, Ammon, I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed. ↗

— Utah Phillips

#manhood #pacifism #experience

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#drinking #humor #humor

Being upright and uncompromising will lead to unemployment by themselves. But to be willfully ignorant of a calling in life as well, that is the denial of a born alcoholic. ↗

— Bauvard

#callings #denial #funny #humor #jobs