Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good.” — K.J. Wignall Copy Share Image
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness. — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain. — Susan Cheever 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
“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
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me,… — Christopher Morley 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
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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it… — Markus Zusak 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
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
“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
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
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of… — Phillip Lopate 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
Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose to fight… — Josh Mitteldorf Copy Share Image
“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
“When you choose to earn your living by helping people who are in emotional pain, you're also making a choice to carry… — Franz W Kellermanns Copy Share Image
“It's going to be a hard time; we can count on that. But with all the misery, what opportunities to show mercy… — Margot Benary-Isbert Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
Americans across our country are feeling a sense of helplessness, of uncertainty and of fear. These feelings are understandable and they are… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike Copy Share Image
