Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson in The Sunset Limited
The drunk’s concern ain’t that he’s going to die from drinking — which he is — but that he’s going to run out of whiskey before he gets a chance to do it.
If you were to give a drunk and drink and tell him he didn’t really want it, you’d be right in saying that. What he really wants he can’t get –or thinks he can’t get — so what he really don’t want, he can’t get enough of.
In truth, he really just wants what everybody wants; he wants to be loved by God.
- Samuel L Jackson, as Mr. Black in The Sunset Limited.
You could take this quote and replace the topic of alcoholism with just about any other vice and immediately cut to the center of so many issues.
