Quotes About Sobriety

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.

I help tons of people through their sobriety and getting help, but not because I have lived it but because I love them, care about them, and want them to live their best lives possible. If I can help anyone through that, then that it is my honor.

I have a very powerful form of alcoholism. I finally gave up and accepted the fact that if I even smell too much booze, I'm going to start drinking again. That's just how I am.

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

Nicht umsonst sagt meine Frau immer: "Dich interessiert alles, außer deinen ehelichen Pflichten." Meine Frau versteht unter ehelichen Pflichten in erster Linie Nüchternheit.

How's your love life?" "I'm on the wagon.

I've seen him become sober so many times and do so well, and struggle to be a right guy. And fall apart again. But to what end?

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

Then it hits me. I'm actually kneeling before a toilet. The throne, as other drunks call it. How many drunken nights and slungover mornings did I worship at this altar, emptying myself of poison. And yet to pray to something above me, something invisible, had—before now—seemed degrading.

You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.

I'm not an alcoholic—I don't have the discipline to become one—but

it's hard not to admit the possibility that I was just desperate for another shot, like an alcoholic rationalizing one last drink.

She raised their three kids in spite of him, working long hours at a shoe factory until she had a hump in her back from bending over a sewing machine. But still, she's loving, kind, and sober. I don't get it. Ruthie

Sophie's mother had to leave her dad, to get sober. She says as long as you're living with an addict, you're addicted.

She's up on the rent and has her drawer full of sobriety chips that she takes out late at night and looks over like a dragon sitting on its treasure.

drink alcoholic beverages ("Be ye not drunk with wine

He had stopped drinking, but the need to be free had been just as great...

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.