Helplessness Quotes · Page 3

Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable…

— Anonymous

“People will help, they just want to check 'How good are you without them?'. Just Show Them.”

— Prerak Trivedi

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Be strong enough to stand on your own two feet, but wise enough to know when to ask for help.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“There is a vast difference between having some coin and no coin. There is a feeling of helplessness that comes from an…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

— Joyce Meyer

“I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.”

— David Mitchell

How do you break what has already been broken? Mend what's been un-mended… Help what feels helpless and forgotten.

— Jesse Burciaga

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

Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly…

— Ted Nugent

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he…

— Robin Gibb

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us…

— Oprah Winfrey

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

— Margery Allingham

“As I write this I feel that draining hollowing helplessness that genuine love for another person produces in you. It's at these…

— William Boyd

“The helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human-- feeling as you went-- groping in corners and opening your…

— Alice Sebold

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most…

— Stephen Bayley

But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with…

— Alice Sebold

“A sensation of helplessness, as if it were utterly impossible to go on living. Painful waves beat relentlessly on my heart, as…

— Osamu Dazai

I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined…

— Hudson Taylor

“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of…

— Phillip Lopate

Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of…

— Stella Chess

People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what…

— John Darnielle

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand…

— Charles Evans Hughes

“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

“Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

— R. L. Stine

“Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought…

— Michelle Cohen Corasanti

“The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.”

— Tarjei Vesaas

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

— Don DeLillo

“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

— John Steinbeck

“What would any man do with a soggy girl who can't assert herself, who has a weak voice, and whose main personality…

— Steve Martin

“The more pessimistic your explanatory style, the easier it is to slip into learned helplessness.”

— David McRaney

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

— John Wesley

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

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

— John Prendergast

Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style; pervasiveness and permanence.

— Martin Seligman

“The illusion of control makes the helplessness seem more palatable. And when that illusion is taken away, I panic.”

— Allie Brosh

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

— Lech Walesa

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who…

— Charles Spurgeon