I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions. — Margery Allingham 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
Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that… — Martin Seligman 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
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
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
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
If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
“The families of the missing are doubly burdened: first by the pain of their ordeal, and then by our expectations of them,… — Richard Lloyd Parry Copy Share Image
After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood… — Rosie Thomas Copy Share Image
There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness… — Terry O'Quinn Copy Share Image
“It seems as though we can no longer imagine anyone but a professional or an institution or a product supplying our daily… — Michael Pollan 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
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
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
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
“People who suffer from learned helplessness think they have no control over their situations, so even if their suffering is great, they… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without;… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin 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
What's worse than feeling sad? Feeling helpless, and by helpless, I mean that kind of helplessness which makes you feel worthless. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
