Quotes About Sobriety

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

We know that nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to stand the pressure of the unknowable.

I never know as much when I'm sober as I do when I'm drunk.

I must have been one of the few New Lads who was teetotal.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

I don't drink and I don't party. And I take care of myself mentally, and that's huge.

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

He had, he verily believed, overcome all tendency to fly to liquor - which, indeed, he had never done from taste, but merely as an escape from intolerable misery of the mind.

I've been through more cold turkeys than there are freezers.

You have no idea how long a year is until you're stone sober.

We are both disciples of the Louis Jordan song 'What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You're Gonna Get Drunk Again).

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

That's the end of the drugs," he promised. "I don't want to go down to the place that's so dark it'll annihilate me.

Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test.

For dronkenesse is verray sepultureOf mannes wit and his discrecioun.

But, R - e - m - o - r - s - e!The water-wagon is the place for me;…It is no time for mirth and laughter,The cold, gray dawn of the morning after!

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

Your pajamas have Eeyore on them." "I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.

He felt like an addict who, after abusing a narcotic for years, somehow found himself sober

I have never been more sane, coldly sane, self-interestedly sane. I am a woman.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

History repeated itself. The 'don't do the things I did' mantra was tiresome pish. The best way to make sure your children don't grow up as cunts is not to be one yourself - or not to let them SEE you being one. This is easier as a sober artist in Santa Barbara than as an alcoholic jailbird in Leith.

Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?