Quotes About Sobriety

Acting sober is an art," he explained. "The trick is to say very little and be very still.

During his lost years, he hadn't wanted people to see how unstable he was. Of course, sobriety had shown him that everyone was a little bit off. His shit was just closer to the surface.

It's a peeling back the layers of the onion one at a time, stage by stage, examining the thinking, feeling, and behavior that were learned and became engrained at each stage of development. Physical sobriety is fairly straightforward, and abstention or regulation are its mainstays, but emotional sobriety can be more elusive.

Emotional literacy is the ability to translate our emotions into words so that our feelings and thoughts can be held out in the intellectual space between two people, shared and reflected on, so that we can think about what we're feeling. It is a natural outgrowth of sound emotional development. To attain and maintain emotional sobriety, we need to learn to tolerate our strong feelings and translate those feelings into words.

Use sunscreen; don't do heroin.' . . . If you could give the entire human race only one sentence of advice, I think you've just nailed it.

I am not a madman or a nut.

I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.

I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better that way, he is deluding himself.

do you think if you died drunk you'd sober up before you met Jesus?

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

They ate on in silence, jaws working all down the table with great sobriety, all sitting upright and formal saving the toothless old woman who bent nearsightedly into her plate with smacking gums, a sparse tuft of long white chin hairs wagging and drifting above the food.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.

working out is such an important way of maintaining an even keel with regard to sobriety

The second I left my old life's cowpath, I discovered I didn't need a drink. It became possible to stand still in the dark under the oaks, hands at my sides, and watch and wait.

How often he had been dumbfounded—at first incredulous, then contemptuous—to hear someone say, after a night of drinking, "God, take it away, I don't want to smell it, I don't want to see it even, take it out of my sight!"—this at the very moment when he wanted and needed it most.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

You find that you have lot of time on your hands when you suddenly are not drinking because you are pregnant.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

You know how alchoholics who go to AA are always using that phrase "one day at a time"? They say that because to say "I will never drink again" is just too damn much. It's big an hard and bound to fail.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

When wine enters modesty departs.

Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man.

He who drinks a fifth on the fourth may not be able to go forth on the fifth.