Quotes About Not Being Sober

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I prefer being totally sober myself.

Aziz Ansari

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

Ozzy Osbourne

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

Fran Lebowitz

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Peter O'Toole

#9. Dreams become reality as you walk toward them

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#10. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

Laura Huxley

#11. I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.

Jennifer Lopez

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

Gertrude Stein

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

"you mean being
sober?"
she laughed.

Christopher Poindexter

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

Chris Hayes

#20. There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

John Frederick Boyes

#21. 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

#22. There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all.

Billy Graham

#23. When you love something, you can't be happy all the time, can you? Like, that's why you love it. It makes you feel all kinds of things, not just happy. It can hurt, it can make you fucking mad, but... it makes you feel something, you know?

Emma Mills

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.

Anne Heche

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Fate is a funny thing, isn't it?

Winna Efendi

#32. 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

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

Augusten Burroughs

#34. My father hated Negroes.

Langston Hughes