Quotes About Sobriety

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

I was a functional addict.

The program of A.A., as written by Bill Wilson and Dr. Smith, only has one purpose: to get you sober. That's it. To make you a better person, forget it. That was one of the things he came to understand in those years of trial and error. It has to be about only one thing.

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I don't drink occasionally. I don't drink on the holidays. I don't drink alcohol, period. Not wine, not nothing.

If I go out to dinner with you and you order wine, I leave. I won't be around drugs and alcohol at all.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.

Since I've had kids, I thank God that I don't drink, as I really wouldn't have been able to cope.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).

Why now that he's sober and thoughtful, and living as a good man, does he get in the worst trouble of his life?

It never ceased to amaze me how much I could hate the world when I wasn't stoned. It seemed such a hostile place. And yet, get a good blast in me, and my love for humanity was abundant.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days, it'd die of remorse on the third—

But who could agree with someone who was so certain you were going to be sober the day after to-morrow?

Drunkenness, she had discovered

Schämt euch, ihr Nüchternen! Schämt euch, ihr Weisen!

a man wholly under the influence of his passions has lost his ability to think rationally, and is regarded as intoxicated or insane.

Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

You come in all clammed up, defences in depth, alibi-systems long established, delusions full-blown. In order to have a chance of staying sober, or rather of staying dry and becoming sober, you've got to change. Nobody likes to change. What you really want, when you come into hospital, even for the second or third or ninth time, is to stay just who you are and not drink. That's not possible, of course. Jack-Who-Drinks has got to alter into Jack-Who-Does- Not -Drink- And -Likes-It.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

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.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.