Recovery Sober Quotes

#1. I can't say hello to you and risk another goodbye.

Taylor Swift

#2. How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.

Josh Lanyon

#3. Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.

David Foster Wallace

#4. Today I share about my addiction and recovery journey as often as possible because I don't want to die all alone in a dark closet, shrouded in shame beside the decomposing skeletons I tried so desperately to hide. I want to live.

Shannon Egan

#5. Do not wait and hope to be discovered ... make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Jamie McCall

#6. Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of
living. Today, we are alive - not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed
out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.
Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.

Ann D. Clark

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

Augusten Burroughs

#8. No opinions, no ideas, no real knowledge of anything, no ideals, no inspiration; a fat, slothful, querulous, greedy, impotent carcass; a stump, a decaying belly washed up on the shore ... Always tired, always bored, always hurt, always hating.

Cyril Connolly

#9. I was sure seeing pictures of Dimitri as a little boy would rip my heart out.

Richelle Mead

#10. Ride 'em, cowboy. Give 'em hell and bananas.

Ralph Ellison

#11. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

#12. I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down.

Mark Hoppus

#13. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

Asa Don Brown

#14. For me, sleeping is a waste of time. I'm afraid to sleep. It's a form of death.

Edith Piaf

#15. 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

#16. Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Bucky Sinister

#17. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

#18. I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.

Joel Osteen

#19. Remember what Mommy said about what to do when something scares you?" "Name it," she whispered. "Exactly." Her mother's smile softened. "If you give the monster a name, it takes away its power, because we're really just afraid of what we don't know. If

J.M. Darhower

#20. Everybody in recovery smokes. If you don't like smoking, don't even bother trying to get sober. Just stay drunk.

Augusten Burroughs