Helplessness Quotes

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be...

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to...

Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Ou...

Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. ...

He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)

It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of...

If I look at the mass I will never act.

There was no doubt now in Ender's mind. There was no help for him. Whatever he faced, now and foreve...

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not ...

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our l...

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helpl...

I don't want to cry for Edward- at least not in the deep, personal way that you cry for a friend or ...

Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it ta...

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great...

In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...

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

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