Alcohol Escape Quotes

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.