“... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Instinct is a makeshift, an admission of helplessness before the problem of reality.” — Leo Frobenius Copy Share Image
Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood. — Nancy Atherton Copy Share Image
This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication.… — Barnett Newman Copy Share Image
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“Finally she lets herself think about how it feels: to be so frightened that you almost can't breathe to speed so fast… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
“Silently, she wondered whether this was the same desperation, the same impotence that grips many men by their shirts, their T-shirts, their… — Panashe Chigumadzi Copy Share Image
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Anger is a passion, so it makes people feel alive and makes them feel they matter and are in charge of their… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
Americans across our country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear. These feelings are understandable and they are… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It's going to be a hard time; we can count on that. But with all the misery, what opportunities to show mercy… — Margot Benary-Isbert Copy Share Image
“When you choose to earn your living by helping people who are in emotional pain, you're also making a choice to carry… — Franz W Kellermanns Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
“The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.” — Mark Hall Copy Share Image
It is the taste of helplessness when you see your beloved fading away like a dream and you cannot help him. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“Learning beforehand that responding matters actually prevents learned helplessness” — Seligman Martin Copy Share Image
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
“People will help, they just want to check 'How good are you without them?'. Just Show Them.” — Prerak Trivedi Copy Share Image
“The juxtaposition of fear and helplessness, set up next to complete pleasure and eventual surrender” — Thomas Kitty Copy Share Image
“Be strong enough to stand on your own two feet, but wise enough to know when to ask for help.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
