Quotes About Being Sober

#1. All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

Anne Lamott

#2. The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.

Augusten Burroughs

#3. Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Ozzy Osbourne

#4. I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

Fran Lebowitz

#5. Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

Peter O'Toole

#6. I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

Gertrude Stein

#7. The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

Sebastian Horsley

#8. I was drunk at five in the afternoon.

Luckily, we were in Las Vegas. I contemplated the fact that being drunk in Las Vegas was like being sober everywhere else in the world. So... normal.

Penny Reid

#9. Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

James E. Talmage

#10. Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

Bucky Sinister

#11. Prague is a threshold."
"A threshold?"
"Yes. Between the life of good and ... the other."
Sarah thought of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "I'm not going to have to fight demons, am I?

Magnus Flyte

#12. Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Paulo Coelho

#13. As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat.

Isabella Kruger

#14. Aerobics is a really whacked-out way to get going. The loud rock 'n' roll music and the teachers standing before you, doing the exercises and screaming into the microphone, "Go! Go! Go for the burn!"

Michael Richards

#15. This book is about the ecosystem and inhabitants of the new United States, one that I sometimes call Frackistan. To trace its emergence, I will begin deep underground and follow the path of the hydrocarbon up and out of the rocks.

Russell Gold

#16. Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Rodney King

#17. Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.

Tucker Carlson

#18. One must always do what one really cannot.

Niels Bohr

#19. do you believe
in the
death penalty?"
he asked her.

"you mean being
sober?"
she laughed.

Christopher Poindexter

#20. He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winterlight, his face sober and absorbed, knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Stephen King

#21. Just as the banqueteers are drunk from wine, the citizens are drunk from fears, hopes, desires, and aversions and are therefore in need of being ruled by a man who is sober.

Leo Strauss

#22. The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people. To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
-Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) US-English essayist, editor, anthologist

Logan Pearsall Smith

#23. I prefer being totally sober myself.

Aziz Ansari

#24. We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.

Laurence Olivier

#25. A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

John C. Wright

#26. Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

Vaclav Havel

#27. There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being.

Walter Raleigh

#28. A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#29. My heart had made its decision and there was no going back. Still, it was hard not to be all bitter and betrayed over his announcement. I didn't even have the luxury of being able to get blind rotten drunk. And believe me, dealing with all this sober sucked.

Kylie Scott

#30. I just got tired of being sick and tired and feeling down. Unfortunately, you don't realize this until you're getting sober but the reason why you're depressed all the time is it's the drugs that are depressing you.

Steven Adler

#31. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#32. All right, so we're also all fucked up. But hey, you think sober people aren't all fucked up? The world is being run by sober people - and it doesn't look like it's working out all that well. Just

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#33. You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

Craig L. Thomas

#34. Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

Katie Couric