Helplessly Quotes
62 quotes by 57 authors
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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in…
— Virginia Woolf
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The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
— John Berger
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A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man and…
— Edward Hirsch
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We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love…
— Kathryn Harrison
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I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy…
— Laura Marling
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In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly…
— Michael McCaul
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Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner to be released,…
— Gautama Buddha
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
— Leonard Peikoff
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In a lifetime among cops since, I've noted that investigators who piece together the aftermaths of home invasion murders tend to keep their guns on…
— Massad Ayoob
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I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I saw a ballpark.…
— Simon Schama
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Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.
— Fay Weldon
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Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of…
— James A. Baldwin
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Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy.
— Robert Thurman
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The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.
— Ayn Rand
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O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's…
— Delmore Schwartz
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... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
— Arthur Miller
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Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly…
— Jane Brody
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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing…
— Polly Toynbee
Who Wrote These Helplessly Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 62 Helplessly Quotes, led by these top contributors: