“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
“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
To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you… — Marshall Brickman Copy Share Image
“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.” — Tarjei Vesaas Copy Share Image
“If you become so frightened of realities that are not your own, if you take upon yourselves tragedies that do not exist… — Seth Copy Share Image
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re… — Deb Caletti 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
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Most of those who think their strength is gone and ask for help from others do not know that the strength that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a… — John Green 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
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“We've all felt a little incompetent, insufficient, overexposed, helpless, unlovable, terrified, defective, unfit and unsung at times. And deep down, for whatever… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
