“I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.” AbleDiesMusicianJazzDrinkingClubsObscureJazz MusicJazz MusicianFunky Author:Sonny Rollins
“Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.” PeopleMindHas BeensStatesDonePastYoungDiesSocialAnswersUnitedBreakUnited StatesTeacherAchieveAcceptanceCollegeGainsOrganizationDrinkingUniversityStartingComplicatedBelongingMedievalStarting PointPast LifeWhatever It TakesFraternityTutorSocial OrganizationSororityHazing Book:Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking Source: Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking
“I was largely drinking to forget where I was. When you’re in a place like Vietnam, you get to a point where you don’t care any more. You’re in a place that’s foreign to you, and you know for a fact that many people there hate you and will kill you if they get the chance. It really does something to your mind to know that many of the people living around you don’t like you and want you to die.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantMindDoeFactsCareHateDiesChanceForgetLike YouDrinkingDon't CareVietnamHate You Author:Si Robertson
“A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.” PeopleFeelsI CanProblemDiesDealsDiseaseAspectDrinkingCaughtDenialSensitiveCaught Up Author:Bobby Lee
“Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.” ThinkingDiesDrinkDrinkingKillingAlcoholismWanting To DieKilling Yourself Book:Practicalities Source: Practicalities
“Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.” PeopleWorldChildrenMotherDiesWaterPovertyHugeTerribleSafeWeaponsMedicineDrinkingBillionsLifestyleHungryPlentyDirtyContradictionOur WorldChildbirthDirty WaterLavish Lifestyle Author:Ban Ki-moon
“Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust for life, that contemptible order of things where one lives in order to eat and drink instead of eating and drinking in order to live.” PersonsOrderDiesTomorrowDrinkEatingDrinkingLustSensualitySensualCowardlyEating And DrinkingLust For Life Author:Soren Kierkegaard