144 Quotes About Helplessness

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

Then I discover when you take a step forward, even a small step, the fear doesn’t exercise such a tight grip. It’s still there but it’s somehow reduced and you allow yourself to feel less of a helpless victim because ultimately it’s the sense of powerlessness that does you in.

I had expected a certain amount of exitment from the staff when they found out I wasn't totaly helpless. Instead, they looked unfomfortable. They exchanged glances, then looked at the sky, then at the ground."umm.... does this mean we're going on? Guido said at last.

Despite having two young children to mother, [Sylvia Plath] seemed inept at the basics of life, always needing help.

… Oh God, but what do I do about Dad’s ‘Helena ever, never’ … I feel like it’s eating me alive …

… Guddi and I would have been floating down the river dead by now hadn’t I come across the sketches on that platform … Oh God, how I miss not being aboard AI 666 on that day!

Her voice distorted in a low howl. … Naresh pulled her close to his chest. She cried inconsolably on Naresh’s shoulder … her skeletal structure rattling with boisterous hiccups which seemed to rush on her with no end in sight.

The real God...will give us more than we can handle just to show us that only he can handle things.

Tears wet my eyes. I’m a surgeon. I like solving things. But how do I solvethis?