Helplessness Quotes · Page 7

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me,…

— Christopher Morley

All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“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

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

Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one…

— Caryll Houselander

Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it…

— David Sedaris

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

— Martin Seligman

“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

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

— H. Rider Haggard

The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and…

— Margaret Oliphant

“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally…

— Steve Corbett

“In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running…

— Cormac McCarthy

“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I wondered about her chicken-and-egg relationship with Dad. Which came first? Her helplessness or his controlling?

— Anonymous

“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

Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and…

— Prentice Mulford

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who…

— Anais Nin

Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of…

— Doug Stanhope

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances…

— Mary McCarthy

“I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or…

— Veronica Roth

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Stephen Bayley

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

— Herodotus

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more,…

— Rosie Thomas

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems…

— Martha Nussbaum