Sobriety Maintenance Quotes

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

I had not had any drugs for 5 years but then I relapsed again. I have also smoked nearly everything. Every day it was a battle to recover, which I fought for my son and myself.

What's the Use of Getting Sober (When You Gonna Get Drunk Again)

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

The shakes stop if you drink enough, but then so does everything else.

We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

I'm clean and sober.

If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go "What happens if you take two?"

I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

I believe in detox. I think detox is smart. You've got a guy who's in an opiate cycle or a dope cycle or something, and he can't get out of it. You shut him down long enough so at least his body can start working for itself again.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

Once you're an addict, you're always an addict, so just because I found something good to do doesn't mean I'm not going to hurt myself doing it.

If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.

I understand the pain of withdrawal, too. I wouldn't want that on anybody.