Quotes About Sobriety

No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

It was a sobering experience.

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up.

That's my only goal: Stay off crack.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs.

Drunkenness was a communal and personal pleasure at once, a miserable state only to those not drinking. Sobriety to him was a cruel attack of conscience masking itself as awareness. If sober people were so aware, how come they only spoke truth when drunk? Give him the romance of a drunkard over the indignation of a teetotaler any day.

Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a personal God. But they really are essential, and reconceptualizing them in a way that allows us to reach their spiritual core—the development of a clear moral self—is crucially important to those of us working the Steps in sobriety.

You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.

I haven't had anything to drink in so long, I figured it'd be best to have something I'd probably never want two of.

People help themselves by trying to help others, and this is the process that helps alcoholics get sober and stay that way. Love and tolerance of others, as stated on page 84 of the text of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the "code" of living that is suggested to AA members.

I don't mean to make a big deal out of sobriety, by the way. Of all the modes of human consciousness available to the modern consumer I consider it to be the most overrated.

When you are on the path, the attraction of drugs and alcohol dramatically diminishes, because you realize how much they knock you around and disturb your clarity, focus, and work flow.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Because I feel like a fool," I said. "Falling for a straight guy. It's a fucking cliché." "Really, Henry? All you feel is foolish? Is that why you were about to throw away your sobriety?

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked.

dbeing drunk is awsome, until you feel everything again.

My problem wasn't drinking and drugs, I decided – it was daylight.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Maybe he should stop with the pot. But then he wouldn't be able to get stoned anymore, and that was hardly a solution.

It crossed her mind to take the pledge, go on the wagon, but she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days.

she couldn't decide which was worse: pending alcoholism, or remorseless unrelenting sobriety of the rest of her days.