50 Quotes About Rock-bottom

After five years of living in New York City, Larry had completely ruined his life and hit rock bottom. He lost any aspirations of ever regaining what had become so far out of reach. Once hope was abandoned, he really did not have much else left.

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?

It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.

Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.

He had no secrets left. No defenses. He had nothing, except that same vast, dark, empty, infinite ache that had resided in him for as long as he could remember. An endless flight of stairs, leading down and down into the cold, dark pit of his soul. Now, at long last, he'd reached the absolute rock bottom. And there she was, just standing there. She'd been there all along.

Sometimes we have to reach rock bottom before we're willing to rise up and overcome our trials.

Here's the thing about hitting rock bottom. You can either stay down there or get back up. It's your choice.

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

Sometimes it takes being left seemingly with nothing to realize that you are everything. To see that you held the key to your own happiness and self-worth and belonging and wholeness all along.