Charles Bukowski Quotes

Treatment of alcohol addiction can take many forms.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

For my most of my career I've been a falling-down drunk. Most of my interviews were done hungover, and for a while it was great.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

There's no liquor in the land that can stop your brain from bleedin

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.

The scary part of alcoholism and addiction and that is until a person is ready to stop, they're not gonna, and there's nothing anyone can do. There's nothing anyone can say or do. And the unfortunate part is sometimes people die because of that.

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

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

I don't have a drink problem. But if that was the case and doctors told me I had to stop, I'd like to think that I would be brave enough to drink myself into the grave.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right.

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.

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

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

I've been drunk only once in my life. But that lasted for twenty-three years.