Drunk Quotes - Page 6

• So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

  Rick Derringer

  Guy, Come Up

  7 Copy quote

• A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

  Heraclitus

  Home, Son, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Block, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Steve Martin from Aug 23, 2011

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ideas, Ends, Heal

  371 Copy quote

• Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Sarcastic, Jobs

  49 Copy quote

• I'm drunk. Correct. What the f*** is it to you?

  Calamity Jane

  19 Copy quote

• Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body.

  Jane Urquhart

  Tragedy, Austin, Would Be

  4 Copy quote

• Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

  Michelle Tea

  Kissing, Talking, Sobriety

  4 Copy quote

• Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.

  Julian Barnes

  Pain, Taken, Helping

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.97, Random House

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm drunk but truthful.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truthful

  9 Copy quote

• I’d ask you to hang out with us, but you’re not supposed to see me this way.’… ‘What way?’ I ask. ‘Drunk?’ ‘Yeah…well, no.’ His voice softens. ‘Real, I guess.’ ‘I’ll pretend I didn’t.’ ‘Nice of you.’ He puts his lips next to my ear and says, ‘You look good, Tris.’… I laugh. ‘Do me a favor and stay away from the chasm, okay?’ ‘Of course.’ He winks at me.

  Veronica Roth

  Real, Nice, Voice

  4 Copy quote

• The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

  Ayn Rand

  Responsibility, Escaping, Consciousness

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.61, Penguin

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it. And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they're drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Thinking, People, Twenties

  4 Copy quote

• Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the "London once-over" - a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress. The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Sports, Crazy, Wrestling

  5 Copy quote

• I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

  David Almond

  Stupid, Thinking, People

  David Almond (2013). “Skellig”, p.16, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

  John Green

  Tired, Sleep, Two

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

  Pete Wentz

  Tears, Mixing

  4 Copy quote

• It's because you aren't thinking very clearly tonight." "I know. Being Drunk is weird." "Oh my god. I love you so much. Especially when you say stuff like that." "Like what?" "Nothing. Never mind. Although I'm dying to know why your shoe is green.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Love You, Thinking, Shoes

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.73, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Night, Years, Rose

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death”, Random House LLC

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

  Sherman Alexie

  Crazy, Sober, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• We left. We did not say: Don't drive, You're drunk. We did not say: We aren't letting you in that car when you are upset. We did not say: We insist on going with you. We did not say: This can wait until tomorrow. Anything-everything-can wait.

  John Green

  Car, Waiting, Upset

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.101, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I was drunk, I wouldn’t be here at all. And really, this is pretty good for four White Russians.” “White what?” I almost sat down but was afraid the chair might dematerialize beneath me. “It’s a drink,” he said. “You’d think I wouldn’t be into something named that—you know, considering my own personal experience with Russians. But they’re surprisingly delicious. The drinks, not real Russians.

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Thinking, White

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.158, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was "So?" The boat's gone. "So?" Your mate's dead. "So?" Hey at least you're alive. "So?" An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Doe, Gone, Hey

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students.

  J. Lynn

  College, Sea, People

  4 Copy quote

• He raised his brows. "You're drunk." "Am not!" He gave me a bland look. "A drunk's famous last words before they fall flat on their face.

  J. Lynn

  Fall, Looks, Lasts

  4 Copy quote