72 Quotes About Sober

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.

If I let Gallowglass just pluck out my pain like a dead tooth, then I wouldn’t learn nothin’ from all those years on the needle. Eventually, I’d just find a way to fuck up all over again, twice as bad. Sometimes it’s our scars that hold us together, Noah.

When we think of addicts, we seldom associate the word discrimination.

I don’t like to stop drinking, after I start. I would rather not begin at all, than to stop. I don’t like the feeling of sobering up, when I know I could still be drinking. Stopping somehow feels disrespectful to the booze, and the journey.

in fact, I’m an advocate for the straight edge. I don’t live it, but I advocate it. So I don’t encourage anyone to do any drugs, but on the other hand I believe in freedom.

It’s like my kind of control isn’t acceptable. You can hear it in the voices of strangers when I tell them I don’t drink tea or coffee and, ‘No thank you, I don’t drink alcohol either.

Smiling is one of our greatest defense mechanisms.

The benefits of smiling go well beyond the outward expression.

Smiling has an array of benefits.