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We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives. — Cheryl Strayed

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. — L. Frank Baum

Blame is useless. Blaming only gives away our power. Keep your power. Without power, we cannot make changes. The helpless victim cannot see a way out. — Louise L. Hay

But for the hours of the night, I was helpless; powerless to move as a dragonfly in amber. — Diana Gabaldon

Republicans are obsessed with abortion ... if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats? — Bill Maher

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality. — Andrzej Wajda

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band — David Crosby

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. — Nelson DeMille

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. — Bill Nighy

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. — Juvenal

There is help for the helpless, hope for the hopeless, and forgiveness for the inexcusable. — Mary A. Perez

There is no freedom from the evil of your own heart.'
'There is no freedom in helpless self-pity and remorse. — Michael Grant

The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature. — Oliver Goldsmith

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless. — Dennis Miller

I play the music of Steven
for Steven;
ragged, helpless,
it owns me, enveloping me
with an incomprehensible love - — Stasia Ward Kehoe

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. — Velma Wallis

I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses. — Sylvia Plath

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been. — Julie Anne Peters

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene. — Maxime Weygand

So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren't so helpless. — Ava Dellaira

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman. — J.M. Barrie

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. — James Dale Davidson

Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me? — Sarah Dessen

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone. — Ayn Rand

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it. — Mos Def

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. — R. Edward Freeman

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'"
"Nothing," said the Prince.
"Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. — James Thurber

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. — Sherman Alexie

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity. — Robert Cormier

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless. — Chin-Ning Chu

The punishment for acting helpless is to find oneself at the mercy of others. — Marty Rubin

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

I have to go," I say, helpless.
What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say? — Jandy Nelson

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. — Ole Hallesby

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with. — George Ade

Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby. — Jared Diamond

It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible. — George Hammond

We know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill. — Cynthia Heimel

Cruelty against innocent helpless animals is the worst form of violence. — Debasish Mridha

Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves. And — Orson Scott Card

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest. — Ted Nugent

Sand dan Glokta, shield to the helpless. Is it ever too late to be ... a good man? — Joe Abercrombie

I'm not some invincible super-soldier
I'm a dying boy who's about to be stuck, helpless, in the hospital while an enemy takes over our country. — Marie Lu

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved. — J.D. Stroube

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. — James Baldwin

Is the kind of smile she loves best: It's like a sneeze, a reflex, a twitch, helpless and automatic, and it only happens when he looks at her. — Jennifer E. Smith

It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless — Anthony Douglas

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us. — Tertullian

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

I found out a long time ago it's more fun being the wicked witch than the helpless princess. — Tammy Faith

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln

God as a helpless baby, he could only lie, stare, wriggle, make noises. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets! — J.I. Packer

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer. — Cornelia Funke

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! — Philip Roth

The bold are helpless without cleverness. — Euripides

My mathematics is helpless against the sea. — Norman Lock

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi

Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not. — Toni Sorenson

The pain was so huge he felt small and weak and helpless inside it, — George R R Martin

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper. — Philip Roth

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do. — Why The Lucky Stiff

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion. — Hetty King

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. — Kin Hubbard

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless. — Dennis Miller

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless. — Ramakrishna

Most of us walk the helpless road simply because we forget to take care of ourselves. — Ngina Otiende

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. — Criss Jami

The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us. — John Steinbeck

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid - like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being. — Jeff Lindsay

A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness. — G.K. Chesterton

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of
free will would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. — Ryan O'Neal

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. — George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who deliberately makes someone else feel less, feel helpless? That person is a coward. They're the weak ones, the shameful ones. What — J.D. Robb

I have been mastered at last, sweet Cyn, helpless in the face of that most human of failings, I love you. — D.B. Reynolds

I'm talking about the sort of pull that's so strong you're helpless. — Cara Lockwood

He thought that I was helpless, because he saw me lonely and poor; but are not the armies of Heaven for the like of me? — Elizabeth Gaskell

Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you. — Vivien Leigh

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. — William Morris

What we work so hard to avoid is the shattering of our lives by horrors we know we will be helpless to control. — Jerome A. Miller

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her. — Richard Steele

In video games, one of the most helpless against injustice can even mighty. — Glenn Greenwald

Without the family, we are helpless before the State. — G.K. Chesterton

But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet. — Alyson Noel

The helpless can't help the helpless. — Tennessee Williams

As long as you believe yourself helpless, you remain helpless even though resolute. — Frank Herbert

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us. — Lois Lowry

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless. — Sophie Hannah

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe. — Mary Hunter Austin

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges? — Brandon Andress

This was what the songs wrote about; with one kiss, I was helpless to pull away. With one kiss, I was a boneless mess, and with one kiss, I was his. — Amelia Hutchins