#alcohol

It used to be that each time you fell in love, the effort of loving released in you the energy to hold everything together a little longer. Then, after several months or years, when things began to crack apart again, you would fall in love with someone else. New energy would be released, and for a time you and your world would be safe once more. By now, however, you have exhausted that. There seems to be no energy left - if you had discovered alcohol earlier it might have saved a few broken hearts. For you, alcohol is not the problem - it's the solution: dissolving all the separate parts into one. A universal solvent. An ocean. ↗

— Ron Butlin

#love

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#drugs #inspirational #memorable #perversion #poetry

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips. ↗

— James Larkin

#bar #drink #house #i #lips

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. ↗

— Barry Mann

#alcohol #become #big #fear #how

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

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

#am #does #grateful #i #i am

A good margarita, a good red wine, I like expensive alcohol, but not a lot of it. I don't like to throw up. ↗

— Denise Richards

#expensive #good #i #like #lot

Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies. ↗

— Jim Diamond

#alcohol #going #i #jerry #kinda