Quotes About Sobriety

It's not a crime to get drunk.

I'd sing for any friend's happiness. I don't have to get drunk to do so.

I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk.

I don't drink and haven't since I was younger so trying to remember what it feels like and act drunk was fun.

I was a pretty straight kid when I was 15 - there was no drunk or drugs.

The abuse of alcohol," Mr. Parrish said in a solemn, preacher-like voice, as he reached for his glass, "is the one thing that puts Man above the animal.

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

Veeva should count her blessings. Three years ago it was cocaine and a year ago it was crack and lemme tell you, that stuff you got to have. You do anything for that high." He laughed again, savoring his memories. "Where do you think the furniture went? Up my nose, that's where. She finally had me carted out of here screaming like an insane man. Spent some time in Bellevue with little sparkly bugs coming out my orifices. Compared to that being a drunk is practically a sensible existence.

Because I have to treat the mental part of my disease. Quitting booze is one thing. Living with my brain sober is another.

I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

I have a healthy body, free of the chemicals that once controlled it.

Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?

Happy people didn't drink themselves to sleep every night.

God sends drunks blackouts because if they knew what they had done they would surely die of shame.

Angel is responsible for all the AA prayers and mottoes. DON'T THINK AND DON'T DRINK. Angel put a cold wet one-sock on Tony's head and knelt beside him. "Brother, believe me … I've been there … right down there in the gutter where you are. I know just how you feel." Tony didn't open his eyes. Anybody says he knows just how someone else feels is a fool.

you know I don't drink! The route to ruin, that's what drink is. Haven't drunk for near twenty years, so don't think you can tempt me. But I'll pour you another before I says goodnight, if you care?' 'And send me on the route to ruin?' 'There's many a route to ruin, as it says in the Bible. We all have to find our own?

And anyway, who's to say that what we see when we're drunk is not reality, and the sober world a bleared phantasmagoria

something has been said for sobriety but very little.

They say we have weak wills. Do you know about the two drunks who went to the film of The Lost Weekend. Came out staggering. My God I'll never take another drink, said the first. My God I'll never go to another movie. How's that for commitment?

Friends don't let friends drink and type!

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

There's no excuses for over-drinking.