Quotes About Sobriety

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Donald Lydecker: Alcoholism is not a disease, it's a failing. You've turned it into a church. You worship the altar of self-pity. I come to these rooms for one reason, to remember what I don't want to become... helpless, impotent, and weak.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Civility's nearly as dull as sobriety and I cannot—will not—be labelled dull. I have peper and piones, and a pound of garlik; a ferthing-worth of fenel-seed for fasting dayes, but dullness have I none: nor am I overfond of being discussed.

For this, you are right, I need to be either entirely sober or very drunk indeed.

Mademoiselle, I tell you frankly that to have a healthy mind in a healthy body is the greatest gift of le bon Dieu, and when I see so many people who have clean blood and strong bodies spoiling themselves and distorting their brains with drugs and drink and foolishness, it makes me angry. They should leave that to the people who cannot help themselves because to them life is without hope.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk? Ask a glass of water!

It's unpleasantly like being drunk. What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water.

What's so unpleasant about being drunk?' 'You ask a glass of water.

Given the two six-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon you drank, I'd say that by midshift your blood alcohol concentration must have been around 0.2 percent, leaving you in no condition to notice any disturbance, much less investigate it.

Doesn't that look beautiful after ten years without a beer?

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill. I went into an immediate depression, and felt awful, just dreadful. So that's it. I'm over it now.

No, I never drink beer. I've never had a pint of lager in my life.

I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

I'm prone to exaggerate when I'm sober.

A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.

Sometimes I think, 'Maybe I could have a drink or two.' But then I think about it, and I just don't want to. It's just not in the cards. I know what I feel like now that I don't drink. I know what it feels like not to be hungover, trying to put my legs on.

I am not the sort of character to get carried away.