Quotes About Hitting Bottom

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

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. Are you a drinker?' the doctor asked. I heard the clunk clunk clunk clunk clunk of empty wine bottles hitting the bottom of my recycling bin.
'Um, I suppose I would say that.

Lauren Sams

#3. returned, smiling back. "Where's Rhonda?" Dean asked when she was four steps from the bottom and Dusty's head turned her dad's way. "Bedroom," she muttered, hitting the bottom of the

Kristen Ashley

#4. The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Fisher Ames

#5. While the classic conversion story involves desperation, hitting bottom, and a plea for help, I think now that it was gratitude, as well as the suffering I'd seen, that made room for me to open my heart to something new.

Sara Miles

#6. Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Alison Bechdel

#7. Her high hopes had set her up for a long fall. And it was never the fall that killed you in the end. It was hitting the bottom that did all the damage.

G.X. Todd

#8. Embrace the anxiety of confronting your emotions because it's often the emotional hitting of rock bottom that ignites our resolve to get back to the top.

Sam Owen

#9. 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

#10. This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.

Rob Sheffield

#11. The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Richard Paul Evans

#12. 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

#13. But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back.

Andrea Gibson

#14. What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired - a word which here means 'happened, and made everybody sad'.

Lemony Snicket

#15. The thing about hitting bottom is that, in the middle of it, sometimes you don't know if you're really hitting bottom or just bouncing off ledges on your way further down.

Frederick Weisel

#16. Both dogs and people are nicer after hitting bottom.

Erica Jong

#17. Everyone has to be an orphan some time.

John Steinbeck

#18. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Christopher Dines

#19. 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

#20. There's freedom in hitting bottom

Anne Lamott

#21. this morning, listening to the BBC news, I learned that half of all prisoners in the UK have the reading age of an eleven-year-old, or below. This

Neil Gaiman

#22. You're not alone. 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 Relationship

Christina G. Hibbert

#23. The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

Lao-Tzu

#24. It closed with a muffled thump that whispered money into the silent interior. The sound of my car door closing was vaguely reminiscent of a nickel hitting the bottom of a tuna can - cheap and tinny.

M. Leighton

#25. We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams.

Timothy Keller

#26. You're hitting rock bottom," she said. "You know, Jennifer, you have to hit bottom before you can make a change, and it's finally happening.

Jennifer Lopez

#27. There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.

Taylor Hanson

#28. You have to understand that not everything in the world is black and white.

Cat Clarke

#29. When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.

Jason Wu

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

Donald Ray Pollock

#31. Slut. I'm a dirty-
The sound of a hand hitting flesh was simultaneous with the shocking sting on her bottom. "Ow!"
"You don't think those nasty thoughts about my sumisita, Kimberly.

Cherise Sinclair

#32. I never felt with her the way I feel whenever I even catch sight of you.

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#33. 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