86 Quotes About Powerless

There was absolutely nothing that she could do with this huge emotion which she had so suddenly discovered in herself.

People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless.

Powerless=lifeless.

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?

Emptiness ate away at his inside, quickly replaced by a sadness that hurt his heart.

its more a trance, jonah said. the whole world is pressing in on me, like a weight on my chest, slowly pushing me down ans down. and there's nothing between me and this weight but my flimsy skin. Its not enough. It won't protect me. It doesn't keep anything out. The outside will keep pressing until my ribs are crushed.

Being helpless can cause a man an early death," Enki said sourly, "But the others will be back for us soon and then it'll be all over.

What a mother hen I am become!” he said soberly. “If I were my old self I should not start at every shadow, and be alarmed when you stumble, but one’s anxiety rises in proportion to one’s incapacity to do anything about it.

It was all real and blazing with detail. But I was shadow, light as mist, mute as the wallpaper.