Sober Quotes

How about a drop of something to cut the phlegm?Why don't you stay sober today?We didn't come to New York to stay sober.

Dashiell Hammett

It seemed that I performed better sober than drunk. Who knew?

Just because you're sober, don't think you're a good driver, Cookie.

Since the day I decided to become sober and a mother, I've been trying to become who I am supposed to be.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Plato forbids children wine till eighteen years of age, and to get drunk till forty; but, after forty, gives them leave to please themselves, and to mix a little liberally in their feasts the influence of Dionysos, that good deity who restores to younger men their gaiety and to old men their youth...fit to inspire old men with mettle to divert themselves in dancing and music; things of great use, and that they dare not attempt when sober.

Michel de Montaigne

So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To act correct and talk correct and answer without knowing the question, because that, my dear, is how you get love. Yes that, dear youth, is how you'll be loved. I tried to medicate my own fucked up little mind with chemicals and adrenaline, tasting sweeter every night, shaking louder every time. Sitting wide awake in bed until the world disappears, writing poetry to concentrate on something real while waiting for the love to arrive.I've been looking for it night after night, waiting patiently for it to show up, maybe somewhere in between the state of awake and asleep, alive and not so alive, sober and not so sober.(I lost track of the difference somewhere in between.)

Charlotte Eriksson

Happy to say you passed the sobriety test. Sad to say you failed the asshole test.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

Lady Astor was also said to have responded to a question from Churchill about what disguise he should wear to a masquerade ball by saying, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?"(Reported exchange with Winston Churchill)

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!

And when he got home he started on Mumma. He hated her then, because in her fatness and untidiness and drabness she reminded him of what he himself was when he was sober.

Ruth Park

When love intoxicates your heart, it is difficult for your soul to remain sober.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection--intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed to periods of intimacy with a bunch of random faces.

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

Curtis Tyrone Jones