Sober Quotes

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

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.

I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half.

I've written songs sober and I've written songs high.

People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.

I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

I'm clean and sober for over a year and no one seems to care! They're like, 'Oh, her dramatic weight gain.' So, stop making fun of me!

Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

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

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it.

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.