Where Does It Say That?

When I was young in the program I thought everyone at my first meeting was as wise as Solomon. "Our Book says," they would declare, and pitch an idea whose time had come in my life. "Pitiful and incomprehensible demoralization"; "four horsemen named Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, and Despair"--the quotes touched my ironclad heart, and I began to believe that someone else on the planet knew how I felt. I didn't know if the quotes all came from the Big Book or not, but they helped me to make it through another day.