Quotes About Sobriety

Is it that we pretend to a reformation? Truly, no: but it may be we are more addicted to Venus than our fathers were. They are two exercises that thwart and hinder one another in their vigor. Lechery weakens our stomach on the one side; and on the other sobriety renders us more spruce and amorous for the exercise of love.

One of the most powerful things I'd learned since getting sober is to love and accept life on life's terms. Alcoholics have a hard time doing this; we're little id-driven crybabies, guzzling and complaining about how nothing in this life goes the way we think it should. Accepting and even embracing the world as it is can be radical, and it can have powerful, positive results.

Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to...

Change is hard, and sometimes I think I should just turn to drugs and stay high and not worry about a damn thing.

I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.

I've been following the noble profession of hermiting here for nigh on fifty-seven years, practising piety, sobriety, celibacy and the pursuit of true wisdom in the tradition of my father and grandfather and great-grandfather before me.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

Having kids, you can't function with a hangover.

Moderation is all very well, but only in moderation.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.

You got sober. You started work at the Globe. You started therapy. You got Clementine" (my first Samoyed). Here she gave me the side-eye and smiled. "And me, I might add.

I'm afraid that if I stop drinking, I'll be dreary, and anxious all the time, and dull," I had told him. "Well, you might be," he had said matter-of-factly. "The only thing you can know for sure is that you'll be a whole lot less drunk." After a while, a whole lot less drunk was what I aspired to be.

the dignity and sobriety of old public buildings, their temple facades, would be assaulted and covered over by indiscriminate modernity; that new buildings, more severely efficient, would eventually replace them.

So he didn't fall hopelessly into the bottle, the refuge of the weak and the maudlin.

After returning home from the Vietnam War in 1967, animals became his refuge from the stresses and horrors of war. Animals had also helped him stay sober for thirty-eight years. When he first met Michael at AA, he told him, "Anyone who's on the down-and-out heals himself with animals.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem," he wrote. "Reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

I think drink is ugly, and therefore I have nothing to do with it.

Live steady. Don't fuck around. Give anything weird a wide berth—including people. It's not worth it. I learned this the hard way through brutal indulgence.

you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them.

I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way people who are normally quite sensible dissolve into gibbering, rude, opinionated and bombastic idiots once the alcohol molecules in their bloom-stream outnumber the neutrons, or whatever. Luckily, one only notices this if one stays sober oneself, so the solution is as pleasant (at the time, at least) as it is obvious.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.