Helplessness Quotes
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Soul-sucking vampires who were profiting from the increased sense of helplessness in society.
— Henning Mankell
But if ever I try to mend, some other bodies would instantly break, would instantly be fragments.
— Khadija Rupa
The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.
— Tarjei Vesaas
Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war
— Michelle Cohen Corasanti
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.
— Randy Harrison
The redundancy of flesh, he thinks, the helplessness of meat, how can we conjure spirit from a bone?
— Ian McGuire
When you cried, I learned what helplessness tastes like. Because all I could do was swallow.
— Penny Reid
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [ ... ] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
— Tamora Pierce
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?
— Justina Chen
I refuse to live in ignorance and helplessness.
— Amber Argyle
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
— H. Rider Haggard
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
— Charles Spurgeon
He began to understand why some people feared the dark so much. The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.
— Matthew Reilly
There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman's despair.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control.
— Marty Rubin
Physical pain inspires the worst kind of helplessness.
— Hiromi Kawakami
There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an empty purse.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Never underestimate the power of helplessness!
— Marilyn French
If I look at the mass I will never act.
— Mother Teresa
I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.
— John Steinbeck
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Everyone secretly wants to be owned.
— Alicen Grey
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
— Lech Walesa
If nothing else, races bring people together. Even if it is through a shared sense of helplessness and loss of dignity.
— Dana L. Ayers
Prayer is helplessness plus faith.
— Bill Thrasher
Through Jesus we don't need perfect righteousness, just repentant helplessness, to access the presence of God.
— Timothy Keller
On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.
— Martin Seligman
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
— Margery Allingham
The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.
— David McRaney
It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene
— D.H. Lawrence
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
— Lech Walesa
And there was in her, even in her helplessness, a sense of power.
— A.N. Roquelaure
He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
— Kate DiCamillo
The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.
— David Jeremiah
We made mistakes learnt from them not to repeat it again. But some mistakes are made repeatedly but we feel helpless after doing it ...
— Debolina Bhawal
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
Do you remember how scared we were? How lost and cold and alone? I do. I don't want anyone feeling that helpless.
— Erin Hunter
Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.
— K.J. Wignall
There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.
— Alphonse De Lamartine
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,
— Pablo Casals
Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.
— Neil Gaiman
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
— Ole Hallesby
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
— Susan Cheever
I scorned the insinuation of helplessness and distraction, shook off his hand, and began to walk about again.
— Charlotte Bronte
I hate cages. For most folks, they're built from fear and they do it to themselves. Not me. Mine were forged of helplessness. Most kids' are.
— Karen Marie Moning
Smart people admit unarmed helplessness is not only irresponsible, but, statistically, such carelessness is asking for trouble.
— Mark Walters
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.
— Robert Kennedy
I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.
— Pawan Mishra
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
— Joss Whedon
Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.
— Joyce Meyer
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon
Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.
— Leo Frobenius
I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.
— S.J. Watson
God knows how to turn your helplessness into strength
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.
— Lynsey Addario
May you find help when you need it most.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace.
— Vivian Amis
Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.
— Lydia Millet
The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.
— Smith Wigglesworth
At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.
— Sri Chinmoy
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.
— Rebecca Latimer Felton
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
— Marshall Brickman
Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.
— Jesse Jackson
To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
— David Mitchell
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It was the helplessness that scared the both of us.
— Lois Lowry
As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.
— John Wesley
And I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.
— Philip Roth
With each stride, I realize I'm not so emotionally overwhelmed anymore. A sense of purpose and fulfillment has replaced my feelings of helplessness.
— Sandra Vischer
Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.
— Mason Cooley
