#sobriety

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#alcoholics-anonymous #bikers #drugs #recovery #sobriety

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me. ↗

— Heather King

#life

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#drugs #drunkenness #intoxication-and-sobriety #men

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian. ↗

— Herman Melville

#sobriety #religion

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time). ↗

— Roman Payne

#drunkenness #happiness #payne #rest #roman

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#sobriety #misery

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#between #both #day #either #gently

Sobriety and health is the greatest thing. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#greatest thing #health #sobriety #thing

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation. ↗

— John Ciardi

#nothing #sobriety #wrong

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. ↗

— Tom Arnold

#day #honor #hurts #i #minute