Marguerite Duras Quotes

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

I made some mistakes. I occasionally drank too much, and I did that night.

Beer would be a great help in fighting off the mental depression which afflicts great multitudes.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

The inner emptiness is the door to God.

When I got into my early 20s, I was going to bed one nightI was still drinking, still using drugs, and probably was drunk or high or both when I just picked up the Bible and started reading to go to sleep. I was amazed at how well I slept, but even beyond that, the next day, there was this peace of mind that was still there that I wasnt used to.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies.

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.

When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology are completely impotent. They are completely unable to meet and address the needs of human beings.

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open.

I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.

I had a 10-year heroin habit and kicked that. Then I became an alcoholic. I drank two fifth's a day.

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive.

It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptance at that time in my life, I would not be standing here today.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Alcohol causes a lot of problems, and then to solve these problems, you drink more.