#alcoholism

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

Blackouts can be fun if approached with the right mindset. You just can't sweat the fact that you've lost a small portion of your life for all eternity. Occasionally, little bubbles of memory will float up like surreal Mylar party balloons at unexpected times throughout the net day and start piecing together a colorful, if incomplete, version of reality. ↗

— Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#alcoholism #blackout #drugs #funny #humor

Question for your life: If Ted Kennedy made it to heaven, do you think he’s pleased with the fact that Jesus can turn water into wine? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#alcoholic #alcoholism #heaven #jesus #pleasure

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#death #father #death

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#addiction #alcoholism #celebrities #dysfunctional-families #fiction

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#alcoholism #drinking #heartbreak #insane #mental-illness

Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#also #blonde #disease #does #everybody

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#alcoholism #animal #child #divine #drinking