Helplessly Quotes

62 Helplessly quotes by 57 unique authors

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in… — Jawaharlal Nehru
There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their… — Roger Ebert
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. — Herman Melville
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul. — Joyce Carol Oates
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found… — Khaled Hosseini
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers… — E E Cummings
A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully,"… — Diana Gabaldon
At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then… — Chelsea Handler
I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion… — Franz Wright
Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What… — Ayn Rand
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly. — Harlan Coben
So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was… — Bret Easton Ellis
The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and… — Ayn Rand
Demon?” Gwen gasped out. Her back jerked ramrod-straight, and her face leeched of color. “Did you just say demon?” Oh, uh…did I say that?” Strider… — Gena Showalter
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of… — Philip K. Dick
The novels were an escape from reality in the sense that we could marvel at their beauty and perfection. Curiously, the novels we escaped into… — Azar Nafisi
She looked up at him with a smile. The smile broke what was left of his resistance - shattered it. He had let the walls… — Cassandra Clare
Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd just sit back and listen--"that there was some… — Douglas Adams
Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists. — Ann Landers
I love you,” Bill said helplessly, as if he wished those magic words would heal me. But he knew they wouldn’t. “That’s what you all… — Charlaine Harris
How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we… — Carolyn Parkhurst
She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia." She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one… — Sarah MacLean
Then her eyes narrowed. The sun was spilling in the window behind her and Dageus's eyes were golden, dappled with darker flecks. Smoky and sensual,… — Karen Marie Moning
I barely heard him, I was too busy watching Pritkin, who had slumped over with his head on the sofa arm, shoulders shaking helplessly, and… — Karen Chance
I said: "He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much." "But he is a Beast," said Father helplessly. I saw that he… — Robin McKinley

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