Bottom Quotes

“My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments of voices, all caught up in a sinister, bottomless whirlpool.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“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?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus

“Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A significant number of people have their brain placed at the bottom half of their body. Thinking with the bottom half have made them extremely stupid and easy to manipulate.”
― Kambiz Shabankare

“The life can always change for any of us, and the one who was on the bottom once might turn up on the top when you least expect it, and vice versa.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Gift of the Fox

“Teachers were not allowed to beat children as they did in the past, although, Mma Ramotswe reflected, there were some boys-and indeed some young men-who might have been greatly improved by moderate physical correction. The apprentices, for example: would it help if Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni resorted to physical chastisement-nothing severe, of course-but just an occasional kick in the seat of the pants while they were bending over to change a tyre or something like that? The thought made her smile. She would even offer to administer the kick herself, which she imagined might be oddly satisfying, as one of the apprentices, the one who still kept on about girls, had a largeish bottom which she thought would be quite comfortable to kick. How enjoyable it would be to creep up behind him and kick him when he was least expecting it, and then to say: Let that be a lesson! That was all one would have to say, but it would be a blow for women everywhere.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Kalahari Typing School for Men

“And it was to the bottom that the vessel now plunged, into the waters that were blacker than any black on land, into a gloom that was more consuming than the deepest night. Were the crew not focused on their frenzied work to stop the steep descent, they might've glanced out one of the many round windows, and they might've thought that they were looking into the black iris of an evil creature—and they might've been right.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker

“We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless opportunity above us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The man who climbed from the bottom to the top and then fell to the bottom again feels as if he has lived the lives of hundreds of people!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Everything starts with us. We are at the bottom.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“The bottom is someone's top in life.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Visit the bottom, visit the top! At the bottom, you meet ugliness; at the top, you meet beauty! Ugly world teaches you to be cautious; beautiful world teaches you to be full of hope! To survive in this universe, you need to be both cautious and full of hope!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When love grows from a bottom of the heart; it becomes the passionate feeling of heart. It is not the matter you reach your beloved, or not.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“My prayer is that none of us would ever find ourselves at the bottom of a hole looking up, but if we happen to find ourselves there my prayer would be that God would be at the top of the hole reminding us that He’s also at the bottom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“As odd as it seems, the road to opportunity often has this huge sign that reads “Bridge Out.” Having ignored the sign and now finding myself laying flat on my back at the bottom of some ‘opportunity,’ I look up and wonder if the opportunity that I had was to learn what an opportunity is, and what it is not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I made my ways straight from the bottom.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“When love grows, from the bottom of the heart, it becomes the passionate feeling of heart. It is not the matter you reach your beloved, or not.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When love grows from the bottom of the heart, it becomes a strong feeling of heart; it is not the matter you reach your beloved or not.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Suicide is as easy as stepping into the beautiful Grand Canyon.”
― Steven Magee

“If you are displaying strange health conditions that your doctor cannot get to the bottom of, genetic health testing may assist you in finding the root cause.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“How many people in Florida are now at the bottom of the ocean from the hurricane Ian disaster?”
― Steven Magee

“The police are corrupt when it comes to their own officers. Riddled with corruption from top to bottom.”
― Steven Magee

“Bodies at the bottom of the ocean tend to float as the decomposition progresses.”
― Steven Magee

“Ryne forestalled any possibility of righting matters, tossing her a fat coin and giving her a slap on the bottom to send her off. Lira offered him a dimpled smile as she slipped the silver into the neck of her dress, but she left sending smoky glances over her shoulder at Lan that made him sigh. If he tried to say no now, she might well pull a knife over the insult.
'So your luck still holds with women, too.' Ryne's laugh had an edge. Perhaps he fancied her himself. 'The Light knows, they can't find you handsome; you get uglier every year. Maybe I ought to try some of that coy modesty, let women lead me by the nose.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring

“Don't hit rock bottom unless you reach the bottom of your coffin.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Are you sure?” she asked. “Your ass is really red.” “Yup! Make it as red as the setting suns!”
― Riley Rose

“All utterances are really to do with the speaker, however remote the thing they may refer to is.”
― Exurb1a