Awake Quote by Gary Lutz

I think I hit the bottom when my wife left me while I was on the road.

— Brian Welch

I felt like I couldn't fully be myself and accepted in my family, so I would lock myself in my room on a Saturday…

— Sean Hayes

I hit rock bottom when I was doing "The Brady Brides." I was supposed to be at the studio, screen testing to pick the…

— Maureen McCormick

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace…

— Maggie Stiefvater

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

— Jack Kerouac

Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back…

— Waris Dirie

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the…

— Khalil Gibran

Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/…

— Kevin Brooks

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

— Ronnie Spector

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and…

— Elena Ferrante

At my wedding, I was dancing so furiously that I fell hard on my kneecaps. The next morning, my knees were so swollen that…

— Casey Wilson

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in.…

— Byron Katie