Quotes About Sobriety

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

Consequences are a concept for the sober.

The best treatment for alcoholism is religious conversion.

Vestía con la misma sobriedad que el hombre de la escopeta: ropas sencillas, discretas, con aire de usadas, pero aun con ellas no perdía el punto de elegancia y clase, la dignidad de la que siempre se había revestido. La misma que no se perdía ni se ganaba con una guerra, porque iba pegada a la piel y al carácter como un sello de poder.

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

GRIMALKIN DOES NOT CRY

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

I stopped drinking before I became a comic; one was a replacement for the other.

I only get ill when I give up drugs.

But you can't exercise and be high. It's impossible.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

bedrock of recovery is abstinence from addictive, mood-altering chemicals. But it is also true that for sobriety to be achieved and maintained, our loved one needs to work through multiple layers of dysfunctional thoughts and behaviors. She must replace unhealthy attitudes and belief systems with new ways of thinking and understanding. And she must acquire new skills for long-term management of a chronic disease.

In the last analysis, ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

The time in prison has also seen Göring kick his longtime morphine addiction.

believe we get active with Step Six when we get sick and tired of being sick—sick and tired of the character defects of which alcoholism is a symptom, sick and tired of their effect, not on our past, but on our present lives.

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

I won't touch alcohol.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

I've never been a bad guy - never acted like a tough guy.