Drugs And Alcohol Quotes

“The cawing of a big, black crow awoke me early the next morning, but I remained still, pretending to be asleep. I didn’t want to see Ibrahim in the light of day, and I didn’t want to make more small talk. I felt hunger pains through the remnants of champagne and cognac from the night before. I wondered why I hadn’t eaten more, feeling silly about having been so insecure about my culinary etiquette.

Numb and void of emotion, I remained in a state of suspended animation reliving the events of our night of passion. The night before, I pictured silhouettes of angels dancing upon the ceiling in the moonlight, not disconnected bodies lying beneath the covers at a loss for words.”
― Samantha Hart, Blind Pony: As True A Story As I Can Tell

“[...] we grieved for both our lives, in which we were both more dead than alive.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“Substance abuse is a very real trap. Drugs and alcohol are very much like an abusive lover who treats you well at first and then beats you up, apologizes, gives you nice treatment for a while, and then beats you up again. The trap is in trying to hang in there for the good while trying to overlook the bad. Wrong. This can never work.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“At least, when there’s fear, there’s some human part left in you. Once that’s gone, though, there is nothing.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“If a fairly substantial percentage of the money you and I work hard for is to be given to people too lazy to drag their arses out of bed at six o’clock in the morning, then we need assurance that they’re not spending our money on booze and drugs.”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“It’s a cold summer morning with the dawn chorus in full swing. The sun is beginning to rise above still-sleepy London town. People stir in their beds, hoping that it is not yet time to get up, wishing for a few more minutes of peace. They cling onto loved ones, feel their warmth and try to settle back to sleep whilst alarm clocks limber up, getting ready to play their tunes.”
― Ross Lennon, The Long Weekend

“Paul
He paces the hallway getting more and more impatient with every stride. Having decided to go into work late today, he didn’t expect his flatmate, Lee, to make him even later.
Paul has known Lee for five years. They first met whilst attending an interview for an IT support role. On the day of the interview the company decided to do a group interview with all the candidates for the positions that were available. Paul was paired with Lee and instantly disliked him as, only a few seconds after being introduced, Lee stole his pen. During the interview process, several technical questions were asked which Paul had answered correctly, but Lee’s answers were always incorrect with Paul having a feeling that Lee was making things up as he went along. The interview stages went well for Paul and, after being told that he had got the job, on his first day at the company, he was surprised to see Lee start work as well. Puzzled, Paul put it down to fact that Lee’s flirting with the HR lady that day had helped him get the job.”
― Ross Lennon, The Long Weekend

“We need to do things differently beginning now. If you are a family member or friend who loves a person who has an addiction, you know the nightmare. There is the nightmare of refusing treatment. There is the nightmare of not staying in treatment. There is the nightmare of not staying sober after treatment. This list doesn’t even begin to include the many losses, the fear, the worry, the desolation.
Professionals alone cannot do the job. We clearly see this truth all around us. Getting the job done requires a resource that has long been relegated to the sidelines, given no meaningful role to play in the treatment and recovery journey. This resource, as it turns out, is the most important one of all—the family.”
― Debra Jay, Love First: A Family's Guide to Intervention

“There is no in between, we all have to touch our own bottom.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“Water is the usual drink, but everyone has wine, for no civilization has found life tolerable without narcotics or stimulants.”
― Will Durant, The Life of Greece

“It is seldom that domestic violence is an isolated episode; rather it is comprised of a number of episodes over an extended period of time.”
― Asa Don Brown

“Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“[...] but for the first time ever, I finally had it in me and I wanted to live. He had taught me well indeed.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“The empires collapsed to rubble. Skyscrapers dragged down to the ground. It was chaos. I could smell the end. It smells of tequila, cannabis, and strawberry shampoo. It's so cold so cold so cold. But I'm not shivering from cold. My own teeth are frigid icepicks. Carved diamond hard, I think I've cut my lip. Maybe it was someone else's teeth that nipped me.”
― Moonshine Noire

“My love of literature has always sustained me; more than alcohol, drugs, psychiatry and medication ever have or will.”
― Robbie Coburn

“She and Amma have only polished off two bottles of red and the rest of the coke, which pleasantly counteracted the inebriation game effect of the drink
Best of both worlds, drink as much as you like and remain coherent enough for a good chinwag”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“Drinking, drugging, sleeping around, it's all the same thing. You have these lines you won't cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won't instantly come to an end.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“A drunk [once] said to me, "Drugs and alcohol are not our problem, reality is our problem; drugs and alcohol are our solution to that problem." [...]

Aren't we all, in one way or another, trying to find a solution to the problem of reality? If I get this job, this girl, this guy, these shoes. If I pass this exam, eat this pizza, drink this booze, go on this holiday. [...] Isn't there always some kind of condition to contentment? Isn't it always placed in the future, wrapped up in some object, either physical or ideological?”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“I opened the doors to Hell and walked in gleefully.”
― Liz Thebart, Walk Away

“I don't need alcohol to see the world in its depths, I carry the sun in me. - On Being Inebriated.”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“In conclusion: Don’t drink and do drugs until you’re older, when drinking and doing drugs are extra embarrassing. That way your brain will be in good enough shape to remember all the humiliating stuff you do when you drink and do drugs.”
― Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

“Our brains were meant to be challenged. Don't spoil them with foreign chemical intoxicants for they will lead you down a road to nowhere with lots of pain and misery to go with you. You'll also lose your drive to do amazing things in this life and who wants that?”
― Major Mike Russell

“I despise alcohol, nicotine and drugs. Music is my stimulant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“Sorry is a word that we say to make ourselves feel better for being shitty people.”
― Joanne Johnston, Loving Lies: A Barres Crime Series

“My darling “mum” perhaps, I will never be as happy as I was in the old days of my childhood, precisely there were no ghosts, no fears! I have never felt like I belonged anywhere, I tried the countries, the books, and the drugs.”
― Qamar Rafiq

“My favourite thing is to be by myself. I can’t take drugs, I don’t smoke and I can barely drink, but I still know how to pass the time.”
― Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories

“My veins were a cocktail of good intentions and bad decisions.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Pieces of a Broken Mind

“Despite the fierce determination of my obstinance, I was ignoring the law of causes and effects. The effects of drugs were addiction, broken relationships, incarceration, shattered integrity, marred character, deceit, homelessness, laziness, depression, mental health disorders, instability, dependency, etc. Even if the police weren’t there to enforce the law and hold me to a higher standard, the inherent consequences of drugs would degrade my quality of life.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“The harder I fought against the law and its representatives, the more messed up my life became. At some point I had to ask myself, why did I keep choosing drugs and rebellion when they only ended in chaos and despair? Was it really worth the fleeting blip of euphoria when it cost so much?”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose