Quotes About Sobriety

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

I know I was an alcoholic because I was preoccupied whether alcohol was going to be served or not.

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

I've never, ever tasted beer.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, 'He is not a lush.' That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, 'Look!'

No amount of alcohol or any illegal substance would make me touch him.

even if they could remember, which I doubt. Once they're sober we'll do

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.

You've reached the voice of reason; be reasonable!

I had an idea that sobriety was a weapon. I thought it would give me an advantage over my enemies. I wasn't sober for moral reasons-I was sober for the same reason a man carries a concealed pistol.

She loved to put her hands in the water and repeat her mantra: "Just for today. Just for today I will choose water over alcohol. Just for today I will allow water to cleanse me, to purify me.

I looked down into my glass. It held club soda, but the way I was gazing into it you'd have thought it was filled with something stronger. I used to stare like that into glasses of whiskey, as if they contained coded answers. All they did was dissolve the questions, but there was a time when that was enough.

First the man takes a drink, as one hears it said, and then the drink takes a drink. And even if that's where it stops, before the third step of and then the drink takes the man

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

It takes wisdom to know when you've had enough, strength to make the decision and determination to see it through.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Anytime you find another alcoholic standing in front of you," he had said, "looking you in the eye and talking about sobriety, consider that God is there, speaking through him or her to you. Or anytime you're sitting in a meeting, consider that God is there. For now, think of God as an acronym for 'Group of Drunks.

The more sober you get, the more clearly you feel

God didn't get you sober to fuck you over.

Kid, if You Need Booze or Drugs to Enjoy Your Life to the Fullest, You're Doing It Wrong.

I don't know whether I will drink again in my life but I didn't drink yesterday, I am not drinking today and I'll try not to drink again tomorrow.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.