Drunks Quotes

“And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.”
― Jack McCarthy

“It drains the bars and cafes after hours, concentrates the wicked and the guilty along its chipped Formica counter, and thrums with the gossip of criminals, policemen, shtarkers,and schlemiels, whores and night owls ... three or four floaters, solitaries, and drunks between benders lean against the sparkly resin counter, sucking the tea from their shtekelehs and working the calulations of their next big mistake.”
― Michael Chabon

“It is not the wine that makes us drunk, but the one who brings it and fills the glass.”
― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry

“To the poor memories of drunks,' she said. 'To all the lovely nights forever lost.”
― S. Fitts

“You're the measure of my true decline. Your home isn't in the underworld, you live in the back room of the liquor store. My eternally hung-over angel, my Satan crawling like an amber worm from a bottle of Zoladkowa Gorzka.”
― Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel

“They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life who chose instead their life: spite and bitterness and age-fogged glasses of watery whiskey in dark, cobwebbed country bars, shit-smeared toilets, blood-streaked piss, and early death. He could have helped it but didn't. They couldn't help it and loved him for being worse than them. He was the king of the wasters.”
― Donal Ryan, The Spinning Heart

“Drunks fear the police
but the police are drunk too.”
― Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

“My tongue thirsty for superiority, maybe even immortality, ruled me. I was ruled by my tongue. I was ruled by women. I was ruled by alcohol.”
― Jerzy Pilch, The Mighty Angel

“Older drunks tend to live in the past, mainly because they are destroying the present, and have little care for the future.”
― Robert Black

“Alcohol is often the last refuge of a beaten people. In that fiery liquid, any honour in defeat vanishes, and, in the eyes of the enemy, they become the pathetic, caricatured wretches they sought to make them from the beginning.”
― Stewart Stafford

“These guys had names for every conceivable drinking situation. They liked to have a little eye-opener to get themselves going in the morning, a midmorning bracer before attempting anything serious, a few modest cocktails at lunch, followed by the obligatory afternoon pick-me-up, which segued neatly right into happy hour and ended with a little one just to help them sleep. For purely medicinal purposes, of course.”
― G.M. Ford, Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

“Veins of ivy scale stones,
find footholds but
the caretaker cuts
earth short, peels
creepers from Cotswold
rock and props the dead
head to head so they won’t
topple like drunks
on their moss-soft shadows.”
― Jalina Mhyana, The Trauma Scope: Poems of Heartache & Optical Illusion

“From a frost-white dwelling emerged a man whose bird’s nest hair and pantomime complexion betrayed a long affair with the vine. His foghorn voice spewed forth an impure torrent of oafish ignorance, pronouncements that could have penetrated through walls from indoors.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I have never understood why an intoxicated man feels the climax of insult is to hurl at you your name. Perhaps because he knows it is the one charge you cannot deny. But invariably before you escape, as though assured the words will cover your retreat with shame, he throws at you your full title.”
― Richard Harding Davis, Once Upon A Time

“How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only now when to stop.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“How can anyone not drink?...Is anyone fool enough not to want to feel good? The day you have a drink's always like a holiday. If you only know when to stop.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“Sometimes, he would say (like all alcoholics) that if someone is a happy drunk then it is okay. There are no happy drunks. They all end up a misery. So do the people around them.”
― Donna Goddard, Purnima

“In the company of drunks, a non-drunk becomes a leader.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“In the company of drunks, a non-drinker becomes a leader.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov