Quotes About Sobriety

Every time I'd be thinking, "I have to keep," I'd remember, "No, you gotta give away instead." When I started going regularly to meetings, one of the principles I learned was that the way to maintain your own sobriety is to give it to another suffering alcoholic. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

Tutti i più ridicoli fantasticatori che nei loro nascondigli di geni incompresi fanno scoperte strabilianti e definitive, si precipitano su ogni movimento nuovo persuasi di poter spacciare le loro fanfaluche. D'altronde ogni collasso porta con sé disordine intellettuale e morale. Bisogna creare uomini sobri, pazienti, che non disperino dinanzi ai peggiori orrori e non si esaltino a ogni sciocchezza. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together, drink by drink, until we occupied a separate reality from the rest of the world.

Moderation in all things

Were you hurt?" (Nykyrian) Syn shifted, some of his anger diminishing. "No." (Syn) "Then why are you having a fit?" (Nykyrian) Syn laughed. "I don't know, it just felt right. You see why I don't like being sober? I overreact like an old woman." He opened his flask, then slammed it down on Nykyrian's desk. "Figures the damned thing would be empty." (Syn)

When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I got up to all sorts of things when I was a kid, but I've managed to take the excessive alcohol and fast vehicle combination out of my life now.

In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

The reason I couldn't pay my rent was because I was one of the worst drinkers you'd ever seen in your life.

all starts with renewing the mind, and you can't do that if you are abusing drugs and alcohol. We need to be present with the Holy Spirit.

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

Years now without coffee, without alcohol, without tobacco. ...Luckily, there is anxiety, which usefully replaces the strongest stimulants.

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven't had a drink now for many years.

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I think in a lot of ways, 'The Shining' is about alcoholism and 'Doctor Sleep' is actually about recovery. They go together pretty well that way.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

I'm not clever. But I am level-headed, hard-working, dogged.

I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.

Just because I like being healthy doesn't mean I can't have fun - I don't drink excessively, but I'll have a couple of vodka-and-sodas.

I grew up in an environment where I could see the kind of havoc alcohol can create.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.