Alchohol Quotes

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.”
― Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness

“And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.”
― Jack McCarthy

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.”
― Milan Kundera, Ignorance

“Chris, soap people are like
us-they seldom go outdoors. And when they do, we only hear about it,
never see it. They loll about in living rooms, bedrooms, sit in the
kitchens and sip coffee or stand up and drink martinis-but never, never
go outside before our eyes. And whenever something good happens,
whenever they think they're finally going to be happy, some catastrophe
comes along to dash their hopes.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.”
― Raymond Chandler

“Do you think, you who sold it, that this bottom of yours has been sweet to me? Affliction, I sought affliction at the bottom of it, tears and affliction, and I found them, I tasted them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“When whisky talks it rarely counsels prudence.”
― Anthony McDonald, Matches in the Dark: 13 Tales of Gay Men

“The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking.”
― George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs, Volume I

“We go down the hall again, thank heaven, to my drink.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Find someone you care enough about to help you control your drinking. Preferably yourself.”
― Robert Black

“Anyone who tells you they only drink wine old enough to have been bottled by their grandfather is an insecure snob who has never had the sublime pleasure of a box of wine at a barbecue.”
― Valentine Glass, The Temptation of Eden

“Banksie, hi. What you up to?'
'Well, I'm going to be writing a book about whisky.'
'You're what?'
'I'm going to be writing a book about whisky. I've been, umm, you know, commissioned. To write a book about it. About whisky. Malt whisky, actually.'
'You're writing a book about whisky?'
'Yeah. It means I have to go all over Scotland, driving mostly, but taking other types of transport - ferries, planes, trains, that sort of thing - visiting distilleries and tasting malt whisky. With expenses, obviously.'
'You serious?'
'Course I'm serious!'
'Really?'
'Oh yeah.'
'... Do you need any help with this?”
― Iain Banks, Raw Spirit

“God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.”
― Cassandra Giovanni, Finding Perfection

“Religions change; beer and wine remain.”
― Hervey Allen

“...de aztán eszébe jutott, hogy az ital nagy egyenlősítő, mindig is összehozott össze nem illő embereket.”
― Douglas Stuart, Beyond the Himalayas

“Who's Johnnie Walker?"
"It's a drink. For grown-ups."
"Is it nice?"
"Makes you drunk."
"What's it like being drunk?"
"Like being awake and asleep at the same time."
"Sounds nice."
"It was meant to sound terrible," he said looking down his glasses at her. "You get sick and stagger around. People actually vomit sometimes.”
― Tom Rachman, The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

“Those similar to thee works happen
liesin even if it is corrected. Life
full of hatred.”
― Jun Jun Guarino

“I had this idea that if you wait long enough, someone will definitely do something stupid that you can take advantage of later… and someone says, hey why don’t you get married. And I say, nah, I fucked married chicks before, It’s not that great. yeah, I guess I still think about the girls... those girls I wish I dated... high school, college girls... man I guess I loved them all to some extent, maybe. How do you decide. They’re all the same, aren’t they? And then I started reading all that feminist pro-infidelity shit and how people get bored with their marriages after 5 to 7 years or so. And my parents always had a horrible marriage. I figure maybe someday I’ll be the guy they all have affairs with, you know? When they’re tired of the bullshit, and they know that love’s a big fat joke. And a cold beer never broke my heart.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“I didn’t know it was the booze, always the booze, that brought on the darkness.”
― Judy Collins, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music

“You don’t need to be drunk all the time to become an alcoholic
! . . . It’s that little drink before dinner. That’s what gradually poisons
your whole system ! . . .”
― Eugène Ionesco, Amédée, ya da nasıl başından atarsın onu

“Of all the places, bars are the most intriguing. The world will be a too lousy place to be without bars in it.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Ah—sake, sake, sake—up to now I’ve lived for sake, and this is what it’s gotten me! Sake—devil or buddha, poison or curative?”
― Santōka Taneda, For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary

“I learned a valuable lesson that God seems to have weaved into all his creation, and it is this: boundaries lead to freedom. Adam and Eve, in order to enjoy their garden freedom, had to maintain a boundary of not eating from the tree in the middle of the garden. I implemented boundaries, and that is where I felt freedom.”
― Steven Kolberg, Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy