Top 301 Recovering Alcoholics Quotes & Sayings

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked like Captain Hook’s crew–ambulance-chasing lawyers, rapacious public policy grants persons, civil rights gamesmen, ditzy-brained movie stars, fat-assed civil servant desk squatters, recovering alcoholics, recovering wife-beaters, recovering child-buggers, and so forth and so on, a grotesque line-up of ill-mannered self-pitying, caterwauling freeloaders banging their tin cups on the pavement demanding handouts.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

I do a lot of work with the Red Cross, too. As a reporter, before I went to entertainment news, I tended to follow natural disasters. I went to Charleston, South Carolina, after Hurricane Hugo. I went to Miami the year after they were recovering from Hurricane Andrew. I came to California when they were recovering from a big earthquake. I've seen the Red Cross and how they stay there years after a natural disaster. They're not just there when a disaster is happening.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

Alcoholics are utterly dear one minute, but there is also a blanket hatred with which you cannot reason.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you're not sleeping, you're not recovering. And if you're going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I'm up at 5:30 the next day.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

We spend our whole lives recovering from high school.

I was court-ordered to Alcoholics Anonymous on television. Pretty much blows the hell out of the second A, wouldn't you say?

Most journalists are broken down alcoholics.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.

It's not that hard to imagine the natural world recovering it's health in our absence: it's more difficult, and more necessary, to imagine it recovering its health in our presence.

I hate alcoholics and AA (alcoholics anonymous). If you can't drink responsibly, don't drink at all. Don't go to meetings, whine about your character flaws and blame the fact that you are a sociopath on booze.

To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.

Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).

Nice: meaning I'm going to be dating leather-wearing alcoholics and complaining about them - to you.

Montreal's not a city. It's a Disney World for alcoholics.

I wouldn't doubt it if the CIA is behind Alcoholics Anonymous.

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

I like to think I'm a recovering historian.

They're like ''You're an alcoholic.'' I go ''No, I'm not.'' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?

I'm a recovering optimist.

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.

Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers... they are obviously alcoholics.

I am a recovering rat racer.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.

What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.

Mistakes are a risk but recovering from them shows a lot of personality.

Back in the day, I was the first non-recovering doctor working in recovery. People would say, 'You can't do that! We need recovering guys in this.' But usually recovering doctors have a lot of baggage and so there's a certain amount of liability with a recovering doctor. But of course it can be ideal.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

Should alcoholics go to liquor stores?

I was ill in '98. By the end of '99 I was recording and recovering.

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

I'm a recovering politician.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

You're not surprised when alcoholics act like alcoholics. It's more surprising when non-alcoholics start acting like alcoholics.

Alcoholics don’t have relationships-they take hostages.

I got thrown out of Alcoholics because when the other clients saw me they thought they were having the DT's

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

I think from day one, recovering, it is just try to be as positive as you can.