Sober Quotes

• The first time we made love, I wasn't sober, and you told me you loved me over and over.

  

  Beth Torbert
  • Time
  • Love
  • Sober

• A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Serious

• I've been sober for so many years. It wasn't like you flick a switch, and you're sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. You can measure how long that takes in terms of years.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Years
  • Sober

• When that fire hit your ass, it will sober your ass up quick! I saw something, I went, Well, that's a pretty blue. You know what? That looks like... FIRE! Fire is inspirational. They should use it in the Olympics, because I ran the 100 in 4.3.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Fire
  • Looks
  • Blue

• Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Passion
  • Forget
  • Strange

• You have no idea how long a year is until you’re stone sober.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Long
  • Ideas
  • Years

• Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Interesting
  • Food
  • Culinary

• Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Sports

• I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written.

  

  Terry Teachout
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Care

• Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Stupid

• So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Deal
  • Weight
  • Sober

• I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Truth
  • Laughing
  • Hours

• Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

  

  William Godwin
  • Passion
  • Revolution
  • Quiet

• Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.

  

  Bonar Law
  • Speech
  • Drunk
  • Sober

• True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Brave

• I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Real
  • Littles
  • Drunk

• Everybody wasn't always wasted. Why is punk rock about getting wasted? Isn't it punk rock to be sober and change the world? I thought it was about challenging capitalism? How are you going to challenge capitalism if you're wasted?

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Punk

• I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and through recovery live a sober life. There is such a stigma attached to addiction and it was hard for me to both confront and overcome it. I am very proud and grateful that with the support of family and friends, I was able to do so.

  

  Cara Santana
  • Blessed
  • Drug
  • Battle

• When I promise I'll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Promise
  • Sober

• I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Drink
  • Grateful
  • Sober

• It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I want to be good, do good, be a worker among workers, a friend among friends. But there's also this part of me that is so dissatisfied with everything, If I'm not living on the verge of death, I feel like I'm not really living.

  

  Nic Sheff
  • Friends
  • Living
  • Sober

• Being sober is not a struggle for me.

  

  Josh Gordon
  • Struggle
  • Being
  • Sober

• Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Sad
  • Believer
  • Affliction

• I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Drinking
  • Performing
  • Prepared

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