Helpless Quotes
479 quotes by 411 authors
-
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating,…
— Karen Armstrong
-
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
— William Bartram
-
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the…
— Daniel Boone
-
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep…
— Christina Aguilera
-
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of…
— Pearl S. Buck
-
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that…
— Noam Chomsky
-
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
— Deepak Chopra
-
Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also…
— Giles Andreae
-
The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history.
— R. Edward Freeman
-
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal…
— Louise Erdrich
-
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
-
True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
— Ray Stedman
-
Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the…
— Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
-
When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the…
— Sheryl Crow
-
There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot…
— Maxime Weygand
-
The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and…
— Augustus William Hare
-
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed…
— William Shakespeare
-
I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
-
Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the…
— Kate Douglas Wiggin
-
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
— Jimmy Carter
Who Wrote These Helpless Quotes
411 authors contributed a total of 479 Helpless Quotes, led by these top contributors: