Helpless Quotes

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

A woman in love is helpless.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

If you feel helpless, go help someone.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for.