Helplessly Quotes

You're hopelessly unemployed and helplessly overprivileged. — Mark William Lindberg

single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light; — Colin Meloy

Shit," he says helplessly. "No - piss," I say, like Oscar fucking Wilde. — Caitlin Moran

Curiously, the novels we escaped into led us finally to question and prod our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless. — Azar Nafisi

Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another. — Camille Paglia

I was helplessly captured; and hopelessly enraptured. — Brownell Landrum

But there is a difference between enjoying someone's company, thinking them attractive, and finding oneself helplessly in love. — Kate Morton

She felt as if the world were tilting and she was clinging on helplessly, trying to keep from tumbling into a black abyss. — Cassandra Clare

He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him. — Maggie Stiefvater

Love swamped her. It always seemed to come in huge, unexpected waves that left her flailing helplessly. — J.D. Robb

It's impossible to talk to a madman wisely, Wallander thought helplessly. — Henning Mankell

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! — David Brin

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. — Polly Toynbee

I gauge the closeness of my friends even now by how helplessly they can make me laugh. — Barbara Quick

I am hopelessly, helplessly in love with you. Don't you know that? — Michelle Dalton

When you are broken, you run. But you don't always run away. Sometimes, helplessly, you run towards. — Helen Macdonald

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy. — Robert Thurman

In commanding love law can only point helplessly to that which it cannot produce. — William McDavid

people who throw kisses are helplessly lazy — Bob Hope

Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that. — Terry Pratchett

Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Go on," he offered magnanimously. "Feel free to piss on yourselves and
cower helplessly."
Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him. — G.A. Aiken

It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually. — Sarah Dessen

Ambrose Young felt himself slip and slide, falling helplessly
with very little resistance
in love with Fern Taylor. — Amy Harmon

And then like two people jumping off a rock into water, I guess we both fell helplessly into sleep. I'm not sure which of us gets there first. — Meg Wolitzer

He lived in it helplessly as we live in our bodies when we are older. — James Salter

Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. — Ann Landers

Moths flitted in the porch light, pinging against the bulb, helplessly drawn to something they could never have. — Jamie Ford

about. I looked around helplessly — Hana Schank

They no longer saw themselves as doers or avengers or saviors; the day had absorbed them. Helplessly, they were only living. — Stephen King

Helplessly I look at him. He will never be just Rowan again. I will never be just Rhine. Everything has been tampered with. — Lauren DeStefano

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. — Joyce Carol Oates

In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her. A life without her in it seemed pointless. — Abbi Glines

So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly. — Harlan Coben

helplessly through — Jessica Sorensen

That his eyes looked most powerfully down into mine, and mine looked most helplessly up into — Charles Dickens

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes. — Franz Kafka

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. — Herman Melville

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents. — Arthur Miller

I can't fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I've been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen — Suzanne Collins

You can't do anything. You will be defeated here by me, on the ground helplessly while I kill this girl, being able only to watch. — Reki Kawahara

But every now and then, when I steal a glance at the Girl, or feel her eyes on me, I helplessly drift back to thinking about her. — Marie Lu

Her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare. — Stephen King

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. — Leonard Peikoff

Damen was smiling helplessly. 'that was adequate.' 'You've been waiting to say that.' The words were only a little blurred. — C.S. Pacat