“The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”
Source: The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath342
American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963Related quotes
“Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone’ll throw you a shovel.” – Chloe Traeger”
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Variant: Just when you think you’ve hit rock bottom, someone will hand you a shovel.
Source: Head Over Heels
“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer
Source: Night Film
“If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up”
Suzanne Collins book Gregor and the Code of Claw
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
“It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit.”
Erich Maria Remarque book All Quiet on the Western Front
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Ch. 6
Context: It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dugout I might have been smashed to atoms, and in the open survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier survives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
