Quotes of: Helplessness Keyword

Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.

Susan Jeffers

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

Toby Stephens

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Lionel Trilling

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

Susan Cheever

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

Mindy Sterling

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

Terence Fisher

Physical pain inspires the worst kind of helplessness.

Hiromi Kawakami

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

John Owen

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

James Herriot

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

Daryl Hannah

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

The Bone Clocks

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Strange Places

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

Portnoy's Complaint

I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss.

Marvin Sapp

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Woodrow Wilson

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

Rachel Cusk

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

Alfred Schnittke

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Arnold Schwarzenegger