“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
“I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How do you break what has already been broken? Mend what's been un-mended… Help what feels helpless and forgotten. — Jesse Burciaga Copy Share Image
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
“What I remembered about the man then was how helpless he'd seemed, and how you could tell that helplessness had made him… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You don’t know what it’s like to worry you’ll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love,… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“Do not hold a lazy faith. Miracles are not spontaneous events we must wait for helplessly. Miracles are an achievement—a breakthrough accomplished… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The… — John Passaro Copy Share Image
When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding Copy Share Image
Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“The fatigue I've gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my… — Emil Dorian Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness. — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
“He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)” — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you! — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“leadership had overcome its ever-inherent tendency for routine and its helplessness in unforeseen circumstances.” — Hermann Hoth Copy Share Image
It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail. — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
“The illusion of control makes the helplessness seem more palatable. And when that illusion is taken away, I panic.” — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
