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Quotes About Sobered

Yes. No risk is insane now, given the position your insanity has put us in. Louis burst out laughing (a puppeteer teaching courage to Louis Wu?) and sobered as suddenly.
~ Larry Niven
If she were seventeen at the time of her father's disappearance she must be seven-and-twenty now--a sweet age, when youth has lost its self-consciousness and become a little sobered by experience.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?
~ George Santayana
The Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I've never seen a world So festering with damnation. I have left Rings of beer on every alehouse table From the salt sea-coast across half a dozen counties, But each time I thought I was on the way To a faintly festive hiccup The sight of the damned world sobered me up again.
~ Christopher Fry