“Continuous alcoholic drinking is really just a slow and lengthy method of suicide. For family and friends, it is horribly painful to endure what can only be described as a lengthy and insufferable extended grieving process.”
Let them think what they liked, but I didn’t mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank — but that’s not the same thing.
— Joseph Conrad
What you say about the general hopelessness of the average alcoholic’s plight is, in my opinion, correct. As to two of you men […]there is no doubt in my mind that you were 100% hopeless, apart from divine help […] People like you are too heartbreaking.
— Page 43 Alcoholics Anonymous
