It was a sobering experience.

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

— Andre Previn

Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.

— Roger von Oech

“Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.”

— David Mitchell

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is…

— Anne Graham Lotz

Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young…

— Carre Otis

Sometimes those apartments we lived in weren't finished, sometimes the rooms would be heated by the gas stove, sometimes we would heat our water…

— Mellody Hobson

It is very easy to see the allure of alcohol to dull the prain and the temptation to punish myself for something that is…

— Anonymous

It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals.

— Ruth Harrison

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a…

— Alan Shepard

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

— Tom Lehrer

“Humility is even more sobering than embarrassment.”

— Sara Winters

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

— James Taylor

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

— Frank Borman

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they…

— Charles Handy

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

— Tom Lehrer