Helplessness Quotes

“It's the voice of my helplessness (O my love)”

— Irshaad Kamil

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

— Jesse Jackson

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated,

— Pablo Casals

“Prayer is helplessness plus faith.”

— Bill Thrasher

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

— Tenzin Palmo

To get Swaraj is to get rid of our helplessness.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I refuse to live in ignorance and helplessness.”

— Amber Argyle

I'm an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness.

— H. D. Kumaraswamy

“The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.”

— Mark Hall

It is the taste of helplessness when you see your beloved fading away like a dream and you cannot help him.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

“The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

— Byron Katie

“Learning beforehand that responding matters actually prevents learned helplessness”

— Seligman Martin

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

— Prerak Trivedi

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

— Charlie Chaplin

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

“People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they…

— Alberto Villoldo

Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is…

— Ole Hallesby

“The anger welled inside me, with no where to go. I could feel it eating away at me. I knew if i…

— Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.…

— Blaise Pascal

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me…

— Georges Bataille

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him…

— Honore de Balzac

If the helplessness and isolation of labour, who have nothing to sell but their labour, can be totally removed by connecting labour…

— Muhammad Yunus

“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

Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear…

— Susan Jeffers

The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are…

— Norman Cousins

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

You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable…

— L. Neil Smith

While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that…

— Gregory David Roberts

Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up…

— Denis Johnson

Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground…

— Peter Gay

“Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She…

— Clare McNally

“Learned helplessness is a psychological reaction to repeated frustration and failure. Research shows that continual exposure to academic failure contributes to withdrawal,…

— Jody Swarbrick

“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“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

We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our…

— Herman Melville

“Every day you feel like you can't control the forces affecting your fate-your job,the government,your addiction,your depression,your money. So you stage micro-revolts.…

— David McRaney