Sober Quotes

• 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

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

  

  Eve Babitz
  • Promise
  • Sober

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Food
  • Humor
  • Drinking

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

  

  William Godwin
  • Passion
  • Revolution
  • Quiet

• 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

• Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Interesting
  • Food
  • Culinary

• Being sober is not a struggle for me.

  

  Josh Gordon
  • Struggle
  • Being
  • Sober

• Write drunk; edit sober.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Drinking
  • Drunk

• 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

• I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety.

  

  William Magee
  • Should
  • England
  • Alternatives

• 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

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

  

  Courtney Love
  • Deal
  • Weight
  • Sober

• 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

• 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

• My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Home
  • Father
  • Rooms

• 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

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

  

  Nora Dunn
  • Drinking
  • Performing
  • Prepared

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

  

  Bonar Law
  • Drunk
  • Speech
  • Sober

• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Sober

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