Top 160 Sober Quotes

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

The 16th-century theatre witnessed the particularly English manifestation of ‘the history play.’ There can be no doubt that Shakespeare’s presentations of ‘Henry V’ and ‘Richard III’ have been incalculably more influential than any more sober historical study.

You see I’m a very personal man. I might have a very large exterior but I am basically quite a sober and simple man.

The dynamic of a relationship changes when one person gets sober.

The fact that I’m sober isn’t really public knowledge, decidedly and deliberately.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

If you think of ‘Chandelier,’ Sia’s singing her heart out about all those moments before she got sober, and that’s one way to convey emotion and make people hear every word.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

I was 14 years old when my dad went into rehab, and he stayed there for a long time – I don’t know, 10 or 12 years maybe. He first was there as a resident, as someone trying to get sober, and it took a long time; and then he stayed on helping people get their GED.

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

Somebody like CM Punk, who stands up and says he’s completely sober – he doesn’t even take a drink of champagne in a toast because that’s just not him – he’s a man that’s completely full of integrity; you’ve got to respect that.

I’m clean and sober.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.

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

I made money in my 20s, became sober in my 30s, looked around, and didn’t know who I could trust for money advice.

When you first get sober, you feel like a superhero. You feel real emotion because you’ve been suppressing it forever. It’s so much easier to navigate what’s important.

The ’90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

When I first got sober, I hadn’t read anything for six or seven years. I didn’t have even that much focus.

There isn’t just one way to get healthy and sober and to stop using.

Donald Trump does not touch alcohol, which is really respectable. But think about that. That means every statement, every interview, every tweet – completely sober.

When I got clean and sober, that was a major change in my life.

My dance skills are reliant on me being a bit pickled in a nightclub, if I try to do a dance move sober it doesn’t go very well, but I used to do ballet and tap so I have to be shown what do, so if I watch things I pick things up quite quickly.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

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.

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.

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.

I got sober at 27 and started writing around 30 and started playing music in public around 32, 33.

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.

It’s bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

I got sober, and I got happy again.

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

Write when drunk. Edit when sober. Marketing is the hangover.

I am a new man, and the man you see before you is the one I was always meant to be. This decision to be sober is a lifetime decision.

We have to thank the members of the Romantic movement for the sober colours of suits. It was their love of the Gothic that put us in grey and black but the suit stuck.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn’t know who I was.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me.

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

That’s something that I never thought I would have in a million years. We’ve done Gold before with ‘Used To Love You Sober,’ which I thought was awesome, but you don’t realize once you get to Platinum, and you see the number difference between 500,000 and a million.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

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.

In 1980, we just ran out of steam. After about 15 years, Don Henley and Glenn Frey came to me and said, ‘We have been thinking of starting the Eagles back up again, and we can’t do it without you, and we can’t do it unless you’re sober.’ I was just about homeless.

When I got sober, that was 1990.

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

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.

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

I got sober at age forty-two.

I got sober when I was 22 years old.

The Italian duo Dumbo Gets Mad specializes in psychedelics for the sober, bringing experimentation together with detailed pop songwriting.

Most of my standup is about stuff that makes me uncomfortable. There are also things I don’t joke about. I don’t do jokes about the people who helped me get sober.

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

I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Being sober is not a struggle for me.

What’s the point of staying sober?

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn’t know how to play them when I was drunk.

When I became sober, I was 27 and struggling as an artist.

I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.