Rock Bottom Quotes
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“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.”
― Prozac Nation
― 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.”
― The Comfort Book
― 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.”
― Special Forces - Soldiers
― 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.”
― Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
― 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?”
― A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus
― 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.”
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“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.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When you feel like you have been hit, dig deep and hit back. Rock bottom is not your end; it is your beginning.”
― Stardust and Star Jumps: A Motivational Guide to Help You Reach Toward Your Dreams, Goals, and Life Purpose
― 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.”
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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.”
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“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.”
― Healology
― Healology
“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”
― Beating Hearts and Butterflies: Poetry of Wounds, Wishes and Wisdom
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”
― 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.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― 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.”
― You Know You Want This
― You Know You Want This
“Yesterday I did my best,
Today I am doing my best,
and as for tomorrow,
I am waiting for the best to happen!”
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Today I am doing my best,
and as for tomorrow,
I am waiting for the best to happen!”
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“It’ll be fine. It will all be fine. And I wonder if I say it often enough, whether it will be.”
― The Only Way Is Up
― 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.”
― The Only Way Is Up
― 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.”
― The Only Way Is Up
― The Only Way Is Up
“But I'm older than him and, by default, supposedly wiser. I know that love isn't always enough.”
― The Only Way Is Up
― 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?”
― The Only Way Is Up
― The Only Way Is Up
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