George Carlin Quotes

I've triumphed over addiction.

It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

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

Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

Fear is the first obstacle we have to get over in our battle for freedom

I am an alcoholic. It took me a long time to admit that to myself. It took me a long time to admit it to my family, but I am.

Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.

Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the 'you only live once' mentality doesn't really work because you can only do that for so often before you're self-destructive.

I will always remember the first show I did clean and sober... It was in New Mexico, in Albuquerque. I literally felt elevated, as everything was coming with such clarity.