If You Are Feeling Helpless Quotes

#1. If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#2. 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

#3. Whenever you start feeling trapped or helpless, just close your eyes, and you have more space than you'll ever need.

Amy Harmon

#4. 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.

Angelina Jolie

#5. The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

Mary Balogh

#6. 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 going'
Like a little lost Sputnik?'
I guess so.

Haruki Murakami

#7. I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless ... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.

Sadie Calvano

#8. What a terrible feeling to love soemone and not be able to help them.

Jennifer Niven

#9. 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

#10. People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

Susan Jeffers

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#14. Do you remember how scared we were? How lost and cold and alone? I do. I don't want anyone feeling that helpless.

Erin Hunter

#15. He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that's a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.

Elizabeth Scott

#16. We know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

Cynthia Heimel

#17. Rico laughed a little, feeling helpless. "Is your life always this ... I don't know-"
"Tide of chaos washing ashore on the beach of what the fuck? Yesh.

Amy Lane

#18. We kill on Halloween," the girl adds, excited to share this with you. "Why?" you ask, feeling helpless. "Tell them why we kill, Poppy.

David Warkentin

#19. We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down.

Travis Bradberry

#20. Employees speak of being fearful opening emails and feeling increasingly helpless in the face of the deluge. Physiologically, we now know that the state of continuous disruption puts us into a constant state of hormone-induced stress.

Noreena Hertz

#21. It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

Wendie Malick

#22. I think it's because you're frightened and you feel helpless, and even though you're trying, things continue to get harder and harder - for the both of you. And the more you try, the more hopeless things seem." "Is there any way to stop feeling this way?

Nicholas Sparks

#23. 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.

Abby Sunderland

#24. Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#25. 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.

Chuck Barris

#26. You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

R.L. Stine

#27. It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.

Zakk Wylde

#28. Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things or asking Him for good things. Maybe it's just the act of praying and feeling that there's someone up there listening that makes us feel better and less helpless.

Sarah Darer Littman

#29. I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

Carmen Electra

#30. When we're anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they're only casting their long shadows over our lives.

Brene Brown

#31. Love is an activity, not a feeling ... True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.

Stephen L. Carter

#32. A reprisal of this magnitude ... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

Moshe Sharett