Helplessness Quotes
131 Helplessness quotes by 109 unique authors
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Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.
— Lech Walesa
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Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
— Lech Walesa
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into…
— Anais Nin
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I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
— Franz Kafka
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What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live…
— Philip K. Dick
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All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart,…
— Denis Johnson
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Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I…
— Christopher Morley
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Love at first sight'some say misnaming Discovery of twinned helplessness Against the huge tug of procreation. But friendship at first sight? This also Catches fiercely…
— Robert Graves
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I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a…
— Oprah Winfrey
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...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If I look at the mass I will never act.
— Mother Teresa
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You win some, you lose some, and your losses are never made up to you. She will simply have to do without; like it or…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power…
— Paul Brunton
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I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to…
— Rosie Thomas
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Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to…
— Ayn Rand
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Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person,…
— David Sedaris
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Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So . . . try not…
— Stephenie Meyer
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These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions…
— R A Salvatore
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The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how…
— Hugh Nibley
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It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of…
— Alice Sebold
Who Wrote These Helplessness Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 131 Helplessness Quotes, led by these top contributors: