33 Quotes About Alcoholic Dads

Having an alcoholic parent can leave a child feeling broken. These quotes about alcoholic dads demonstrate the type of damage that can happen from having a parent suffering with addiction.

“A drinking man’s someone who wants to forget he isn’t still young and believing.”

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all.”

“Adulthood has shown me that you really don’t need fun to have alcohol.”

“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”

“Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others.”

“Always stick around for one more drink. That’s when things happen.”

“And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.”

“But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius.”

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

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

“I can’t stop drinking about you.”

“I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away.”

“I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.”

“I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.”

“I mean, that’s at least in part why I ingested chemical waste – it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself.”

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it.”

“If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.”

“If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they’d have to bring out the tanks to control you.”

“If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”

“It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless.”

“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”

“People with family histories of alcoholism tend to have lower levels of endorphins- the endogenous morphine that is responsible for many of our pleasure responses- than do people genetically disinclined to alcoholism.”

“Perhaps people felt there was nothing more they could do, you know? After all, how can someone be helped who doesn’t see the need?”

“Some things just couldn’t be protected from storms. Some things simply needed to be broken off…Once old thing were broken off, amazingly beautiful thing could grow in their place.”

“The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.”

“The only honest people in the world are small children and drunk people.”

“The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.”

“There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are breaking just like mine.”

“There’s not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or, to be cruder, a piece of shit that the universe revolves around.”

“Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me.”

“To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.”

“When you quit drinking you stop waiting.”

“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn’t matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.”

Dealing with an alcoholic parent can leave you with dire consequences.