Helplessly Quotes

62 quotes by 57 authors

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
The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
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
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
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
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. — Leonard Peikoff
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
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
Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. — Fay Weldon
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
Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy. — Robert Thurman
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. — Ayn Rand
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
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents. — Arthur Miller
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
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

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