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479 Helpless quotes by 395 unique authors

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more… — Mindy Sterling
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by… — Thomas Sowell
Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. — Criss Jami
To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. — Richard Hofstadter
He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race. — Charles Wesley
The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be… — Susan L. Taylor
As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual… — Frederick Salomon Perls
It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. — Zakk Wylde
Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously… — Willard Gaylin
One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and… — Charles Portis
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune… — Susie Orbach
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of… — Sam Shepard
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended… — Archibald Alexander
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the… — Nellie Bly
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This… — Terence Fisher
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being… — Virginia C. Andrews
The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a… — Lou Reed
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say… — Mary Pipher
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near… — Vikram Seth
Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies… — Michael Bassey
The helpless can't help the helpless. — Tennessee Williams
Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious,… — Susan Forward
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest… — Sylvia Plath
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it… — Frederick Douglass

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