Top 100 Quotes About Rock Bottom
#1. Rock bottom demands we pay a price for the ride back to the top.
Toni Sorenson
#2. When you decide to hit rock bottom, humiliation is part of the deal.
Guillaume Musso
#3. If I want a man I'll go to a cheap bar, like any other sane woman. I, for one, haven't hit rock bottom.
Eleanor Prescott
#4. It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.
Graydon Carter
#5. Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.
Francine Rivers
#6. Rock bottom became the solid foundation of what I built my life
J.K. Rowling
#7. Even if consumer confidence hit rock bottom, that most likely would not be enough, by itself, to cause a depression.
Charles Duhigg
#8. If someone's opinion of you goes from sky-high to rock bottom, this isn't normal.
Jackson MacKenzie
#9. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.
Arthur Miller
#10. If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.
Bryant McGill
#11. You want to know why you've never been able to make me cry?" I asked. "Because you're trying to tear down someone who's already hit rock bottom. You can't make me feel any worse about myself than I already do.
Kelly Oram
#12. God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.
Kirk Franklin
#13. Darling Daddy, This is Rose. The shed needs new wires now it has blown up. Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you. Love, Rose.
Hilary McKay
#14. Well, I stopped drinking. That was actually a big deal. I didn't go through any harrowing rock-bottom experience. I just made a decision to stop drinking.
Josh Radnor
#15. The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it's honest, it's a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone's soul.
Hats can do the same thing.
Charles Martin
#16. Deep down," Perry continued, "way, way
rock-bottom, I never thought I could do it. A thing like that.
Truman Capote
#17. When you hit rock bottom, don't forget you still have something to share or to give to the others. This is where redemption lays.
Robert S. Tudor
#18. I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person.
Paul Dano
#19. We're all just rain
falling from above
sooner or later we'll hit rock bottom
each and every one of us
Anastasia Wild
#20. The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better.
Mitch Landrieu
#21. I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for the pilot and thought, 'Boy, this is just a real interesting place to begin a character.' I had to figure out how to go about playing someone who had hit rock bottom.
Timothy Hutton
#22. As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.
Banana Yoshimoto
#24. I think we had to hit rock-bottom in all facets of the program before we could ever start moving in a positive direction.
George M. Gilbert
#25. 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
#26. Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.
J.K. Rowling
#27. I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system..
Mariah Carey
#29. I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J.K. Rowling
#30. 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
#31. We'd hit rock bottom, but this is what is found there. The truth.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#32. I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put on me. He sent out his angels to rescue me. In prison, he protected me the whole time I was in there, and it was just for me to get my will power back, to get my strength back, get my focus together.
El DeBarge
#33. Sober alkies are often asked: When did you hit rock bottom? but a more informed question might be: How many times did you hit rock bottom?
Craig Ferguson
#34. Keep in mind, when you hit rock bottom, there ain't nowhere to go but up, baby.
Ludacris
#35. When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.
Pattie Mallette
#36. [E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.
Ellen Goodman
#37. 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
#38. I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the guy that would play my husband. At this time, I had been up for three days doing coke and was playing solitaire in my closet.
Maureen McCormick
#39. Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'
Adrienne Bailon
#40. What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
Alanis Morissette
#41. This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.
Rob Sheffield
#42. Two things define you in this life. Your attitude when you are at your highest and your attitude when you are at your lowest. Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom in order to recognize and define what truly matters.
Tanya Masse
#43. Well, when you're being held at gunpoint by a geriatric madman in a metal skirt, you've kind of hit rock bottom anyway. It can't really get much worse.
Jonathan Stroud
#44. I feel like a stone you have picked up and thrown to the hard rock bottom of your heart.
Randy Travis
#46. Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
Jill Shalvis
#47. People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.
Danny Bonaduce
#48. It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.
Demi Lovato
#49. When people have something proven to them, and they see that it really benefits them, they don't have to be looking for a change or be at rock bottom. When they see something proven that is of benefit to them, they'll turn around 180 degrees and never look back.
Andy Andrews
#51. The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
Ben Okri
#52. Win, lose, on top of the world, or at rock bottom ... I'm with you Rowen Sterling. To the very end.
Nicole Williams
#53. I suppose one has to be desperate, to be a successful writer. One has to reach a rock-bottom at which one can afford to let everything go hang. One has got to damn the public, chance one's living, say what one thinks, and be oneself. Then something may come out.
T.H. White
#54. Rock bottom for some people is death. Some people never learn from their mistakes. They don't learn from other people's mistakes.
Tracy Morgan
#55. What happens to someone who hits rock bottom after breaking up with the love of their life? There was no rehab for a broken heart.
Lisa De Jong
#56. I think I've definitely had my rock bottom and I think that was probably right before I went into treatment where I said, 'I definitely need help.'
Demi Lovato
#57. You know you've reached rock bottom when you're standing on the beach, looking to the horizon, and you don't notice you'r ankle-deep in dead fish.
Peter Lerangis
#58. You may think you've hit rock bottom in your life but guess what - there's more crud underneath those rocks.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#59. There is a fundamental situation in which the country has reached rock bottom, that a mother can't send her children out of the house in the morning. The country has reached rock bottom and this needs to be changed.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#60. 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
#61. For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.
Athol Fugard
#63. Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.
Tony Evans
#64. For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.
Jessica Lange
#65. But I also enjoy music outside the band. I've been doing production for other people, including Robert Wyatt. Check him out. The album we did together, 'Rock Bottom,' I think it's really lasted well. It's a 35-year-old album, but it worked.
Nick Mason
#66. When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.
Eminem
#67. I don't believe in rock bottom. Rock bottom is like a fishing term.
Charlie Sheen
#68. The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.
Malcolm Morley
#69. At times, my confidence is rock bottom, although I try for it to be sky high, thanks to the people that are always there with me and support me.
Javier Hernandez
#70. You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom.
Vanna B.
#71. Sorry, Jack. I really needed to hit rock bottom before I could dust myself off.
Donald Jans
#72. Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it's absolute unfreedom.
Arthur Koestler
#73. People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
George Best
#74. Everyone has a rock bottom.
Prince
#75. 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
#76. You know you've hit rock bottom when the man who's picked you up a thousand times is dropping you off at rehab and telling you he won't come back until you pick up yourself up this time.
Lauren Gallagher
#77. I'm not sure how far the decent is, because I'm still falling. But I've hit rock-bottom about half a dozen times in my life,
Zack Love
#78. When you're at rock bottom, strap on a different pair of boots and start climbing - The New Mrs D
Heather Hill
#79. And the best part about rock bottom is that you can only go up from there.
Quinn Loftis
#80. Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise. Or not rise. In these days of tension and confusion, writers are beginning to realize that books for children have a greater potential for good or evil than any other form of literature on earth.
Dr. Seuss
#81. Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".
Otto Penzler
#82. Tomorrow night, I'll sink to an all new low! Lemme rephrase that... Tomorrow night, I'll be at rock bottom! No, that doesn't sound good either... Tomorrow night, I'll be in Giovanni Schiaparelli's favorite hole! Okay, I admit I'm just fucking around now.
Andy Weir
#83. How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom
Jodi Picoult
#84. I think we crushed ourselves down over the centuries. Buried ourselves under greed and hate and whatever other sins we could find until our souls finally hit the rock bottom of the universe. And then they scraped a hole through it, into some ... darker place.
Isaac Marion
#85. You may be going through things right now that are painfully preparing you for some precious service to Jesus and to his people. When a person strikes rock bottom with a sense of nothingness or helplessness, he may find that he has struck the Rock of Ages
John Piper
#86. We think in our society today that the way people change is that they have to have a deep desire to change or that the way they change is they have to hit rock bottom. But neither of those things is true.
Andy Andrews
#87. When a stock is selling at a discount to liquidation value per share, a near rock-bottom appraisal, it is frequently an attractive investment.
Seth Klarman
#88. It's funny how you can think you've reached rock bottom, then sink a whole lot further.
Tabitha Suzuma
#89. Most people decide to be a force of good when they either reach rock bottom, are trying to go to heaven, or find out that being good helps hold things together
Phil Mitchell
#90. The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom.
Bill Willingham
#91. Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute
Erich Heller
#92. I need the money, the security, because I might not have the blanket of support and love I have now forever. It could all end, and then I'll find myself at rock bottom, a strung-out stripper like my mother.
I can't let that happen.
I won't let that happen.
Toni Aleo
#93. I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.
Jack Kirby
#94. Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.
Dambisa Moyo
#95. I would never know how that person felt when they first heard my song. They coulda been at rock bottom and my song could have literally been the thing that saved them, but I would never know that.
Joey Badass
#96. 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.
Emile Durkheim
#97. Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.
Stephen Furst
#98. To me, true rock 'n' roll has a lot of bottom in it.
Little Richard
#99. A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
Fisher Ames
#100. I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE ...
Janis Joplin
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