Sobriety Quotes · Page 4

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.

— Wes Fesler

There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

— John Ciardi

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

— Augusten Burroughs

Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety

— Moliere

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

— Noel Coward

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”

— Herman Melville

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

— Pythagoras

I lift my restraining order against sobriety for 40 days each Lent. I miss you alcohol.

— Rudy Espinoza

“NOW THAT I WAS OUT of that bizarre . . . sobriety fog, I could see everything much more clearly!”

— Cat Marnell

“When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before? I have never…

— Meredith Bell

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

— Ariel Pink

The road to sobriety is not easy and rehabilitation and the recovery process are not to be taken lightly.

— Drew Pinsky

Praying with all who enter into a special fast and spiritual sobriety today on Ash Wednesday. May we all come before our…

— Anonymous

Here's the thing about your past: You decide how long it lasts; present mind may seem blurred, but you're far more conscious…

— Jamie Timbre

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have…

— Rob Lowe

“I stopped loving my father at some point while I was a drunk. I began hating him after I became sober.”

— Volatalistic Phil

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the…

— Marya Mannes

“AA began as a nonprofessional attempt to grapple with the alcoholism of its founders. It arose and took its famous twelve steps…

— Lance Dodes

“She has no regrets; she knows now he could never have made her happy, even though he has, apparently, joined AA, is…

— Sarah Rayner

“Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the…

— David Foster Wallace

To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a…

— Charles Darwin

“I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead…

— Roman Payne

“Steps Six and Seven are often brushed off, especially by the nonbeliever, because they seem to assume a direct relationship with a…

— Marya Hornbacher

“Picking them up and reading them, I felt sadness do deep that it will never really be gone. It was a sobering…

— David Levithan

Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated…

— Anthony Kiedis

I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and…

— Erin Cressida Wilson

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man…

— Francis Bacon

“Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite…

— David W. Jones

Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage…

— L. Neil Smith

“He also found himself increasingly resentful of the “tally system” that AA uses to measure sobriety: every time he “slipped” and had…

— Lance Dodes

The best taxes are such as are levied upon consumptions, especially those of luxury; because such taxes are least felt by the…

— David Hume

“AA has managed to survive, in part, because members who become and remain sober speak and write about it regularly. This is…

— Lance Dodes

I am a bit of a freak. Only 10 per cent get 10 years sobriety.

— Tony Adams

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

— Matthew Perry

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

— Francis Chichester

I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.

— Gillian Flynn

There is no question that sobriety has made me a better actor, made me a better person.

— Edie Falco

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

— Moliere

I've enjoyed every day of sobriety and I felt so much better immediately.

— Spencer Matthews

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

— Oscar Levant