Rock Bottom Quotes

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling

“And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.”
― Matt Haig, The Comfort Book

“I need you.” He could not go any further down. Rock bottom. And at the very bottom was just this one thing. The core of it all. “Fucking... love you... too much.”
― Aleksandr Voinov, Special Forces - Soldiers

“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

“When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.”
― Émile Durkheim

“He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.”
― Guillaume Musso, Seras-tu là?

“There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“When you feel like you have been hit, dig deep and hit back. Rock bottom is not your end; it is your beginning.”
― Christine Evangelou, Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose

“No one needs to hit rock bottom to change. And yet so many people do, only because most of us are unskilled in communicating with ourselves.

Stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, illness ... these are all symptoms of a bigger problem. You're trying to tell yourself something. Loudly.

Listen now or listen later. There is no ignoring the call.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“It is impossible to lose everything and still be alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Nothingness

It is only in nothing...
A damp, dull, nothingness
Those cold, sharp, empty spaces
In our times of scarcity and loss
That we understand the true meaning of everything
And the indelible value of what was cost”
― Christine Evangelou, Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom

“In the end, the only way you can appreciate your progress is to stand on the edge of the hole you dug for yourself, low down inside it, and smile fondly at the bloody claw prints that marked your journey up the walls.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

“When I try to reconstruct the place that I was, at that point in my life, to figure out how I got there, to that punch, to that bed, to that girl—I can't. I can see where some bad decisions led to some other bad decisions, but I can't get all the way there; it's like I imagine a curve, where I'm dropping lower and lower down, and then I'm off the radar screen, invisible, and then, after some time goes by, the line is rising, visible again, and I don't know what happened in between.”
― Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Sometimes we need to be drawn to a place so dark that we have no choice but to trust our hearts to illuminate the way.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I’ve hit a lot of rock bottoms, but this time I must have rolled my sorry ass into a trench. “Get up.” I let my hand fall away, squinting to see Nick’s figure in my doorway. Get… up? “Worst idea you ever had,” I say, voice rough as gravel. “And that’s saying a lot.”
- Remy to Nick”
― Angel Lawson, Samantha Rue, Dukes of Peril

“Don't hit rock bottom unless you reach the bottom of your coffin.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Want to is perhaps overstating the situation. Have to is more accurate.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“I’m a firm believer that everything in life happens for a reason.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“Sometimes doing the right thing doesn’t come easily.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“It’ll be fine. It will all be fine. And I wonder if I say it often enough, whether it will be.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“But I don’t want to get used to it. I want to sleep through the night once more and not wake up in a cold sweat at three o’clock in the morning wondering.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“As you get older, you get used to a certain level of comfort that’s so hard to give up.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“But I'm older than him and, by default, supposedly wiser. I know that love isn't always enough.”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“But you must promise me that you'll never sell it again, whatever happens. If you need money, come to me?”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“Love makes you do very silly things”
― Carole Matthews, The Only Way Is Up

“Life in shambles is not the end of life. Sometimes things have to fall apart before they can fall into place.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain