Sober Quotes

• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  

  Adam Sedgwick
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Game

• Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • My Life
  • Sense
  • Result

• Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Way
  • Honesty
  • Tolerance

• Now that I'm sober, I deserve to get laid.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Deserve
  • Sober

• Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

  

  John Milton
  • Train
  • Steadfast
  • Majestic

• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  

  John Milton
  • Bliss
  • Sober
  • Waking

• I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Drugs
  • Clean
  • Sober

• My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I’ll be completely sober.

  

  Rumi
  • Soul
  • Elsewhere
  • Drunkenness

• I prefer being totally sober myself.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Sober

• The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Problem
  • Drug
  • Horrific

• Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Moderation
  • Sober
  • Consequently

• You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

  

  William Penn
  • Grace
  • Mercy
  • Resolution

• I understand that kids look up to me, that some people might have gotten sober because of me.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • People
  • Kids
  • Look

• Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Drinking
  • Dancing

• Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sad
  • Sober
  • Affliction

• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Food
  • Humor
  • Drinking

• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Experience
  • Purpose
  • Religious

• It started at one thirty on a cold Tuesday morning in January when Martin Turner, Street performer and, in his own words, apprentice gigolo, tripped over a body in front of the West Portico of St. Paul's at Covent Garden. Martin, who was none too sober himself.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Words
  • Sober
  • Performer

• Write drunk; edit sober.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Drinking
  • Drunk

• Getting sober was the single bravest thing I've ever done and will ever do in my life.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • My Life
  • Sober
  • Bravest

• Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Life
  • Present
  • Sober

• Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Reason
  • Reflection
  • Adversity

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  

  John Milton
  • Silence
  • Bird
  • Beast

• The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and taking 40 Vicodin. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

  

  David Feherty
  • Long
  • Better
  • Hardest

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