Top 100 Quotes About Sobriety
#1. (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I'm writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I'm an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.
Augusten Burroughs
#2. She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.
Stephen King
#3. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
William James
#4. One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.
Ludwig Von Mises
#5. Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings.
Stanton Peele
#6. The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection.
Johann Hari
#7. Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
Gabriele Nanni
#8. I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life ... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
Rob Lowe
#9. Drinking is for the moon," she would say as she poured her wine. "Darkness hides our smaller sins. But the sun isn't so
forgiving. Light requires the innocence of sobriety.
Kyra Davis
#10. My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
Mercedes McCambridge
#11. Hang a man for no real reason and you might get some grumblings from the townships. But force sobriety upon us, and you'll be picking up the pieces for a bloodydamn month.
Pierce Brown
#12. What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
Anonymous
#13. Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument,
Isabel Allende
#14. There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.
Edie Falco
#15. I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
Billy Joel
#16. Achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.
Lou Gramm
#17. The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.
Rush Limbaugh
#18. Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere
#20. Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.
Frederick Exley
#21. I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
Daniel Baldwin
#22. First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd
#23. Your moment of clarity comes when you face your fears. Sobriety gave me back me - my life. Self-medication kills you slowly. You can never get a handle on that. It's a highly destructive force that has to be dealt with on a spiritual level as much as a physical one.
Chaka Khan
#24. One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.
Kevin Sessums
#25. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual ...
Bill W.
#27. India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
Pratibha Patil
#28. I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.
Matthew Perry
#29. Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test.
Gena Showalter
#30. The bar was pulsating with rock music and packed with partiers, all set to leave their inhibitions, and their sobriety, behind.
Kenneth Eade
#32. Coop introduced her as Ingrid, his massage therapist. "Piper Dove," she said. "I'm actually Mr. Smith's sobriety coach." "Well, God bless you," Marilyn said with a cheery smile. "There's no shame in admitting you need help, Mr. Smith.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#34. Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety.
Ingrid Mathieu
#35. What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
Mark Twain
#36. Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.
Carlos Castaneda
#37. I do not live in the world of sobriety.
Oliver Reed
#38. Anytime the Foxes mentioned Andrew's upcoming sobriety or Andrew's name popped up in write-ups on the team's performance at games, the focus was on what a danger he was. People talked about his trial and how it saved them from Andrew. No one said what they were doing to save Andrew from himself.
Nora Sakavic
#39. All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
Henry Ward Beecher
#40. There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi
#41. The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
Matthew Perry
#42. A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.
Joseph Addison
#43. I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.
Jeffrey Tambor
#44. The honor of acting as New Orleans's mascot comes with a profound responsibility to forsake stress, stability, sobriety, monogamy, respectability, and all manner of legitimate employment and lawful behavior.
Frenchy Brouillette
#45. I stared down into her eyes, trying to read the emotions I saw there. I wanted her. More than a dance. More than a fuck.
I was drunk on her, and in this case, sobriety was just out of my reach.
Chanel Cleeton
#46. I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.
William Magee
#47. I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of true wisdom in the tradition of my father and grandfather and great-grandfather before me.
Terry Pratchett
#48. It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
Mahatma Gandhi
#49. Mr. Bates was sober, with that manly, British, churchman-like sobriety which can carry a few glasses of grog without any perceptible clarification of ideas.
George Eliot
#50. I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.
Steve-O
#51. The dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them.
Gail Jones
#52. She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.
Jane Austen
#53. I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.
Michael Chabon
#54. Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
Anthony Boucher
#55. I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
Gillian Flynn
#56. Alcohol cannot create an abuser, and sobriety cannot cure one. The only way a man can overcome his abusiveness is by dealing with his abusiveness. And you are not "enabling" your partner to mistreat you; he is entirely responsible for his own actions.
Lundy Bancroft
#57. My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.
Ariel Pink
#58. I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.
Mary Docter
#59. The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
Thomas Keating
#60. So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
Johann Hari
#61. Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Henry David Thoreau
#63. Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
#64. You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living.
Joe Abercrombie
#65. I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.
Abraham Lincoln
#66. Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name.
Doug Stanhope
#67. Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.
David Foster Wallace
#68. My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
Steve-O
#69. The inward working of God's goodness tends to produce an uncontrollable wildfire when He takes the helm of clinical, religious sobriety - when He turns our water into wine.
John Crowder
#70. Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.
Gene Weingarten
#71. I like to quote Homer Simpson: 'I'm like a chocoholic except for alcohol.' I come from a long line of alcoholics. It's funny because when I first started making records, I was at the tail end of a period of sobriety, so I somehow got this reputation as Captain Sober.
Moby
#72. When I'm around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I've never even tasted alcohol before, but I'm sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that's the case, I'm already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you..
Colleen Hoover
#73. Something has been said for sobriety but very little.
John Berryman
#74. Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?
Chuck Palahniuk
#75. Honesty.
Sobriety.
My virginity.
No way to regain
the first two, I almost
gave away the last.
Ellen Hopkins
#76. She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...
Dan Simmons
#77. My knuckles go white as my grip on the porcelain tightens. Now I know what Desmond cashed that one particular bead in for. Sobriety. Forget the supernatural bounty hunters that are after him; that fucker is mine. That
Laura Thalassa
#78. Sobriety itself is today's high, for it is ultimately in the most centered consciousness that we find our power to transcend the world.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux
#80. Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.
Moliere
#81. There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.
Mary Karr
#83. Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
David Brooks
#84. When a feminist as strident as Garofalo is defending the Hussein regime, you have to wonder if her newfound sobriety has hit a rough patch.
Ann Coulter
#85. Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
Edmund Burke
#86. The economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.
Ida Tarbell
#87. The experienced pastor will recognize to which situation humor belongs and to which belongs sobriety.
Thomas Oden
#88. Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.
Judith Thurman
#89. Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
Benjamin Whichcote
#90. I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better - the knack of making people like me.
L.M. Montgomery
#91. Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?
Louise Penny
#92. Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to have one glass of a perfectly chilled California Chardonnay.
Anne Lamott
#93. Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite "ordinary" persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones.
Andrew Stephen Damick
#94. In early sobriety I heard that if you have an idea after ten p.m., it is probably not a good idea - and this was before e-mail.
Anne Lamott
#95. Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
Rob Lowe
#96. It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
Thomas De Quincey
#97. Sobriety sucked the biggest donkey dong in the world.
Sarah Hepola
#98. Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William Rounseville Alger
#99. leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express). She
Stephen King
#100. If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?
Pope Pius XII
