Helplessness Quotes

131 Helplessness quotes by 109 unique authors

The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above… — Unknown Author
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer or in song.… — Jack Kornfield
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for… — Chuck Barris
When the individual is relieved of the obligation of self-respect, he acquires the habits of helplessness; he is inclined to retreat to the security of… — Frank Chodorov
Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting… — Barnett Newman
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love,… — Dawn Powell
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer. — Ole Hallesby
The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be… — Daisaku Ikeda
The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social standing… — Mary McCarthy
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution… — E. O. Wilson
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I… — Robin Gibb
Go another step. Try to live one entire day without words at all. Do it not as a law, but as an experiment. Note your… — Richard J. Foster
The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated, — Pablo Casals
While I was chained to a wall and being tortured, I realized, through the screaming of my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness,… — Gregory David Roberts
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith
The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness. — Smith Wigglesworth
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what I need in… — John Darnielle
For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's… — Alan Redpath
It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a… — Elisabeth Elliot
I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing… — Mahatma Gandhi
Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do. — Joyce Meyer
Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the ways you can,… — Mia Farrow
If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative,… — Dalai Lama
Love is both a principle and an emotion; it is something both felt and willed. It is capable of almost infinite degrees. Love in the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes… — Thomas Merton

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