144 Quotes About Helplessness

Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing - able - to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed [my mom] to help me, to take care of things for me - and to save me - but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it.

It's what everyone thinks," Jules said. Their face - normally open, armed with joy and humor - was stony and closed off. "Like doing things my own way is the most ridiculous shit they've ever heard of, even though it's the only way I've ever been happy. Nobody says it to my face, but everyone here treats me like it's a miracle I've gotten this far on my own

If everybody takes up the solemn responsibility, within his all her means as far as possible and with all tenacity, of helping somebody, somebody will always get help from somebody

it's hard to help fix someone if you're still broken yourself.

The universal experience of living through a great shock is the feeling of being completely powerless: in the face of awesome forces, parents lose their ability to save their children, spouses are separated, homes - places of protection - become death traps. The best way to recover from helplessness turns out to be helping - having the right to be part of a communal recovery.

Fuck this.Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen.

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 a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

Jakie niebo? Jaki Bóg?! Ty nie widzisz, co się dzieje? Ty nie widzisz, że Boga już dawno tu nie ma? A jeżeli nawet jest – staruszek zniżył głos – to on jest po ich stronie.

imagines heroics make the helplessness worse, don't you think?