Top 100 Helpless Quotes
#1. It wasn't fair and part of him knew it wasn't fair, but never in his life had he felt so helpless, so lost, and so consequently mean. He
Stephen King
#2. The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.
Charles Bukowski
#3. What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.
Dwight L. Moody
#4. To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
Richard Hofstadter
#5. Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.
Jennifer Worth
#6. We were drifting apart. I felt helpless to stop the pattern, but still, I held onto him for dear life.
R.K. Lilley
#8. It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
Sarah Dessen
#9. Incredible, searing, glorious heat consumed her. Coherent thought eluded her. She could not think. She could not speak. With a helpless gasp of pleasure, she surrendered. Her arms twined around his neck, clutching him to her.
C.L. Wilson
#10. She told him that she had looked after him because of the white hairs on his forehead that grew into the shape of a star. Sometimes you see that someone is marked and you're helpless after that - you love.
Helen Oyeyemi
#11. Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling
#12. There are so many people, so many artists, so many magazines, so many theater companies, so many people trying to raise money for so many things that it's easy to look around and just feel powerless or helpless, because even if you have some resources, you can't help everybody.
Amanda Palmer
#13. I wanted to understand her predicament because I was her son and I loved her with a helpless corroded love.
Jerry Pinto
#14. Blunt turned to the man in question with a helpless grin, "You have always proven yourself a mystery to me, good fellow!"
Falconer lifted one corner of his mouth, "Then I have succeeded, Blunt.
Nicole Sager
#15. At twenty years of age, the old-fashioned schooling turned me out helpless, ignorant and dissatisfied. Forty years later I encounter the product of the new schooling - still more helpless, still more ignorant, and possibly not even dissatisfied.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#16. Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that we are helpless. I am moderately busy, but not all that helpless. Neither are you.
Jennifer Reese
#18. Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not.
Toni Sorenson
#19. I will tie you up, sometimes in very intricate, time-consuming bondage. I will suspend you from things. I will play with and tease and torment your bound and helpless body.
Sayara St. Clair
#20. They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication.
Ayn Rand
#21. He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#22. Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.
Jon Evans
#23. Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations - not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.
Elie Wiesel
#24. 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.
Stephen King
#25. I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.
Evanescence
#26. Shhh."my mother said She presses her lips to my forehead, strokes my hair, just like she used to when I was a child. I am a baby once again in her arms - helpless and needy. "I'm here now.
Lauren Oliver
#27. You're not a whore. You're a chick who hasn't exactly grown up with every advantage, and you've learned to use what you've got. You don't do it on purpose. It's second nature. You act girly and helpless and make men think you're harmless.
Jennifer Echols
#28. Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carter
#30. I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.
Dennis Miller
#31. We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
Brad Meltzer
#32. You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.
Robert Cormier
#33. I'm alone, going in the opposite direction. We're on different tracks in more ways than one. All of a sudden the air feels thin and something heavy is bearing down on my chest. Am I really doing the right thing? The thought makes me feel helpless, isolated.
Haruki Murakami
#34. I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end.
William Shakespeare
#36. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#37. I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.
Christopher Cross
#38. The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
Ramakrishna
#39. Suddenly, I felt so helpless. If I hated the crowds but also my own company, where did that leave me?
Sarah Dessen
#40. I used to think this heroic: my sturdy, stable dad, capable of anything. But now I realize that he's just drawn to dying, helpless things. The unsaveables.
Like Mom.
Maybe, like me.
Kate Ellison
#41. The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us.
John Steinbeck
#42. How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
Thomas Sowell
#43. Bran held his voice leve. "In time,you will regret these words. You may hold me captive now, and believe me helpless. But each foulword you speak of her brings your death a little closer."
Bran to Eamonn
Juliet Marillier
#44. We couldn't change anything, and in times of war, people become helpless and vulnerable.
Shannon A. Thompson
#45. When I was young, I used to watch a lot of old movies and read a lot of books, and I was always amazed at how every one of them had some helpless damsel who was oh so happy to fall into the hero's arms, and I'm not that kind of girl"- Yvonne
Alexander Ferrick
#46. Mature men look into the ladies hearts.
Immature ones mention constantly their body parts.
They mentioned sex like they're obsessed.
Enslaved by drugs and alcohol; helpless.
Ricardo Derose
#47. I sneak out of my room at night, when all is still and silent. And I watch the humans sleeping, study their vulnerabilities, and savor the fact that I will never be helpless like them again.
I am mad, and i embrace it.
A.G. Howard
#48. And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely).
Rob Sheffield
#49. Apathy is unconditional surrender where we are driven into hiding by unrealistic fear, and firmly held there by the misinformed belief that we are helpless to do anything other than hide. Therefore, apathy survives solely on lies and can be completely abated by truth.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.
John Piper
#51. Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.
Ted Nugent
#52. Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?
Sandra Scarr
#53. Lost things. They claw through the membranes, attempting to summon our attention through an indecipherable mayday. Words tumble in helpless disorder. The dead speak. We have forgotten how to listen.
Patti Smith
#54. Maybe what God had done was give her a great gift. She'd come to this country helpless and friendless. She'd been given both friends and a family
Siri Mitchell
#55. Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
John Arbuthnot
#56. It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda
#57. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham
#58. I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.
Philip Schultz
#59. Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby.
Jared Diamond
#60. Being in the military just lets you know how helpless you are. You could train forever but you're still at the mercy of someone in the Pentagon, or somebody in the rear moving you around like a chess piece.
Ice-T
#61. O thank you, Uncle Omar. Thank you for instilling a helpless youth with such grave suspicions of women and all their works, that here and now, in my maturity, in my thirty-second year, I cannot confront a lovely and half-naked lady without getting cramps in my toes and saying gahr.
John D. MacDonald
#62. The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.
Ayn Rand
#63. That which once united man Now drives him apart.We are not helpless Creatures crashing onwards irresistibly to doom. There is time for everything and time to choose For everything.We are that time, that choice. Everybody gets what he deserves.
Alan Bold
#64. I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so- I don't know- lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space. With no idea where I'm headed.
Haruki Murakami
#65. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless
Anthony Douglas
#67. The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent
#68. Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band
David Crosby
#69. I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
Hermann Hesse
#70. 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.
Jack Henry Abbott
#71. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
Pearl S. Buck
#72. Communism is like an autoimmune disorder; it doesn't do the killing itself, but it weakens the system so much that the victim is left helpless and unable to fight off anything else. It destroys the human spirit on an individual level, perverting the values of a successful free society.
Garry Kasparov
#73. From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
Margaret Halsey
#74. She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
Catherynne M Valente
#75. Were all these castle folk in their ornate finery no more than confused souls hiding inside costumes, as the hard shells of snails protected the helpless, naked things that lived within them?
Tad Williams
#76. Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.
Victor Joseph Etienne De Jouy
#77. If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved.
J.D. Stroube
#78. No one is ever compelled to / so helpless that they get exploited. One who say so (that they were exploited) are lying.
One always has a choice to walk away!
Honeya
#79. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#80. I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.
Eugene B. Sledge
#81. Our minds have the incredible capacity to both alter the strength of connections among neurons, essentially rewiring them, and create entirely new pathways. (It makes a computer, which cannot create new hardware when its system crashes, seem fixed and helpless).
Susannah Cahalan
#82. Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. I would not be weak again. I would not be dependent on anyone else. I would never have to endure the touch of the Attor as it dragged me because I was too helpless to know where and how to hit. Never again. But
Sarah J. Maas
#84. I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.
Leila Janah
#85. Whoever lacks faith is powerless;
whoever does not pray is helpless.
Whoever prays for the poor enriches himself;
whoever prays for the sick heals himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.
Suzanne Collins
#88. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot
#89. Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.
Edeet Ravel
#90. As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing ... playing helpless.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#91. Soul drunk, body ruined, these two sit helpless in a wrecked wagon. Neither knows how to fix it.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#92. Was it a fact that every man had something in his life which palsied his arm, and struck him helpless in the battle for social justice? When
Upton Sinclair
#93. In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what's about to happen. When you feel helpless, you're far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.
Chris Hadfield
#94. Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.
George C. Lorimer
#95. I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.
Bill Nighy
#96. The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides
#97. 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.
Rufus Wainwright
#98. Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble. (172)
Sherman Alexie
#99. If the students see that rules are for everyone ... for professors too, not just for poor helpless students who get nothing but suffering out of the system ... why, the positive effects on school discipline should be tremendous.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#100. Children and babies are the most innocent, vulnerable, helpless creatures on the planet. They're relying on you for everything. Their lives will be defined by the choices made by the adults around them.
Catelynn Lowell
