Top 100 Sobriety's Quotes
#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. We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.
CrimethInc.
#7. The opposite of addiction isn't sobriety. It's connection.
Johann Hari
#8. Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
Gabriele Nanni
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. What sobriety conceals, drunkenness reveals.
Anonymous
#14. 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
#15. There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.
Edie Falco
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.
Rush Limbaugh
#20. Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
Moliere
#23. 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
#24. We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#27. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.
Terry Pratchett
#28. 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
#29. Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection
intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.
Jess C. Scott
#30. Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
Jeremy Collier
#31. First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd
#32. 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
#33. You know why God's so hard to find, Trevor? No, Mr. Shaw, I say, why is God so hard to find? God's so hard to find because he ain't lost!
Ryan Winfield
#34. Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.
Herman Melville
#35. 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
#36. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Henry Ward Beecher
#37. We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual ...
Bill W.
#38. And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.
Jack McCarthy
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test.
Gena Showalter
#42. The bar was pulsating with rock music and packed with partiers, all set to leave their inhibitions, and their sobriety, behind.
Kenneth Eade
#43. And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks
the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand, glass of something strong-smelling in the other.
Anna Davis
#44. 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
#46. 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
#48. Integrating the fullness of the human condition into one's spiritual practice is what leads to emotional sobriety.
Ingrid Mathieu
#49. What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
Mark Twain
#50. 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
#51. I do not live in the world of sobriety.
Oliver Reed
#52. 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
#53. All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
Henry Ward Beecher
#54. There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.
John Ciardi
#55. The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.
Matthew Perry
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins
#66. Lead's erasing then vanishing
Banished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleaned
Running from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy
Criss Jami
#67. 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
#68. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
William Shakespeare
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.
Jane Austen
#72. 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
#73. You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.
Jamie McCall
#74. I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober.
Phil Volatile
#75. Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
Anthony Boucher
#76. I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
Gillian Flynn
#77. 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
#78. My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.
Ariel Pink
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.
Johann Hari
#82. Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?
Bucky Sinister
#85. 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
#86. Kid, sobriety's like a hard-on; the minute you get it, you want to fuck with it.
David Foster Wallace
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Jim Stavridis is the former NATO commander who is sometimes on people's lists, also very plausible, self-possessed, someone with sobriety.
David Brooks
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Procrastination has been a boon to my sobriety. I keep thinking I'd like to go out and get really trashed some night--but not tonight. It's really a variant of "One Step at a Time.
Rob Dinsmoor
#95. Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung's work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again ... in Messiaen, a feeling for the music's reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance.
Donal Henahan
#96. I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift ... for those who are willing to receive it.
Ace Frehley
#97. Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
Gary Busey
#98. 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
#99. The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
Debra L. Kaplan
#100. Aping the lower class will only lead to fatherless children, unusable muscles, and the fear of tomorrow's sobriety.
Bauvard
