Abstinence Quote by Rebecca West

[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and ... it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.

— Queen Victoria

“The physical effects of alcohol are often one of the least rewarding parts of drinking for addicts.”

— Charles Duhigg

So the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is human connection.

— Johann Hari

“The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.”

— Debra L. Kaplan

“We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because…

— Chris Prentiss

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

— Plato

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.

— Anonymous

The more necessary it becomes to stop drinking, the more impossible it becomes to stop.

— Jeffrey Bernard

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

— Charles Bukowski

“Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.”

— Chris Prentiss

What's the point of staying sober?

— Oliver Reed

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their…

— Emile M. Cioran