Hitting Bottom Quotes:

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

- Donald Ray Pollock

topic: Thinking, People, Hitting Bottom, Wrong Impression

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Sowing, Hitting Bottom, Soil

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

- Rainbow Rowell

source: Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments: A Novel”, p.250, Penguin

topic: Hitting Bottom, Hitting, Way

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

- Dave Ramsey

source: Dave Ramsey (2013). “The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Hitting Bottom, Worst, Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me

A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.564, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Feelings, Hitting Bottom

Stop trying to control everything, and just let go..let go

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Letting Go, Trying, Stop Trying, Hitting Bottom, Just Let Go

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- George S. Patton

topic: Life, Motivational, Success, Bounce, World War 2

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

- J. K. Rowling

source: J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Stripping Away

Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

- Brad Pitt

topic: Letting Go, Weekend, Nihilism, Hitting Bottom

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Sad, Freedom, Loss, Losing Everything, Hitting Bottom

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

- Hugh Miller

topic: Encouraging, Opportunity, Thorns, Support And Encouragement, Hitting Bottom

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

- Stevie Ray Vaughan

topic: Rocks, Thank God, Growing, Hitting Bottom

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

- Maria Sharapova

topic: Sleep, Rocks, Always On The Go, Hitting Bottom

The leaders I met, whatever walk of life they were from, whatever institutions they were presiding over, always referred back to the same failure something that happened to them that was personally difficult, even traumatic, something that made them feel that desperate sense of hitting bottom-as something they thought was almost a necessity. It's as if at that moment the iron entered their soul; that moment created the resilience that leaders need.

- Warren G. Bennis

topic: Leadership, Iron, Soul, Hitting Bottom

Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom

- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

topic: Fall, Expression, Inspire, Hitting Bottom, Deconstruction