Hank Williams Quotes

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

My uncle was the town drunk - and we lived in Chicago.

Women are hard on themselves.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

The fact that I'm sober isn't really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

Once you're known to be an alcoholic, that's how many people identify you, which could be a reason not to talk about it.

When I was drinking I was thinking I was having a good time but it came back twice as bad, the depression. It was just a vicious circle - drinking, not caring about myself - and it gave me a bad low.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I did a good job at beating myself up at sometimes. I don't drink anymore but my alcoholic head occasionally says different. 'Nil By Mouth' was a love letter to my father because I needed to resolve some issues in order to be able to forgive him.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use.

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

This is going to sound strange, but I really didn't think I would pass 30. I don't know why or whatever, I just didn't. That's a very weird thing to say, I'm sorry. I don't know. Maybe it's because I was drinking so much as a youth.

I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.