“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
Others on Addiction
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2 quotes“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”
George Bernard Shaw
1 quote“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
Graham Greene
1 quote“Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death...”
John Steinbeck
1 quote“Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
1 quote“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with a...”
Philip K. Dick
1 quote“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man h...”
Alice Hoffman
1 quote“You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.”
Steven Pressfield
1 quote“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”
Ayn Rand
1 quote“The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”
Somerset Maugham
1 quote“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and...”
Carl Jung
1 quote“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”
William James
1 quote“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”