Quotes About Sobriety

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

I've never been drunk in my life. I don't use recreational drugs.

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.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

Life would be so colourful if only I had a drink problem.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Have you ever been to an AA meeting? No wonder these people are alcoholics - I've never needed a drink more badly in my life.

I went through a normal kind of late teens, early 20s drinking, but it was a choice I made, because I didn't think it was very good for my life.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Given that the pre-frontal cortex is a key to our success as a species, consuming any amount of alcohol or other intoxicant seems really stupid.

began to intuit dimly why people drank when they went dancing, and it occurred to me that maybe the reason preschool had felt the way it had was that one had had to go through the whole thing sober.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

De ahí la sobria ebrietas como meta, pues quien se educa en ella disfruta de la relajación con dignidad. Como añade Filón de Alejandría, «quienes no se permiten la ebriedad, y se consideran sobrios, son presa de las mismas emociones que el ebrio»

A person who does think of his brain can't drink liquor or wine, feels often pain in life and remains away from women.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

I think a person who is disabled should be disabled by no act of their own. If you become disabled because of alcoholism, drugs, or things of that nature, I do not think those conditions qualify someone to be called disabled. I think those conditions result from personal decisions.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.