Helpless Quotes
But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.
Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.
We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.
For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being.
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.
Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to our inner core, and that takes work. That takes time and patience.
But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet.
The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while.
... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.
It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless
Republicans are obsessed with abortion...if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?
At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone.
I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?
It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it.
I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.
I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.
If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.
Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.
Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.
In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers.
All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.
