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

“One of the most amazing things that we often forget is this: God never forgets us! Face it; you could hide under a rock, BUT, God will still be beside you saying, "Rock bottom, already?”
― Mary Kate

“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

“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

“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

“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

“People dealing with trauma and depression don’t magically get better overnight. It’s not like in the movies, Mary. There’s no magic reset button at rock-bottom.”
― Benjamin W. Bass, Alone In The Light

“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

“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

“Your darkest moment rips off every mask. It makes you see the world for what it really is. And people, for who they truly are.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“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

“The interesting thing about both getting ‘high’ and hitting ‘rock bottom’ is that FUNCTIONALLY they both lead to the same exact place: a connection to the truth about life and a taste of the things that are most REAL.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“When we’re HIGH on life, then it’s because we have managed to strip away and let go of all of the barriers within ourselves that hold us back from life’s pure signal; when we’re LOW on life (at rock bottom), then it’s because we stopped listening for so long that life stripped those barriers away and forced us to listen.”
― Oli Anderson, Trust: A Manual for Becoming the Void, Building Flow, and Finding Peace

“Your hair has gotta be on fire before you go like, 'Yeah, I’ll go hang with a bunch of dudes and talk about emotions'.”
― Dax Shepard

“Sure, take magnesium. But no pill rewrites you like the fall does.”
― Djamel Bennecib, At 36: A Year That Broke Me Open — and Put Me Back Together

“That's the beauty of rock bottom, beta. Once you hit it, the only direction left is up.”
― Seethala Devi Chandu, You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go