Quotes About Helplessness

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

He'd [Cork] delivered tragic news before. It had been part of the job, but he'd never become immune to he effect tragedy had on those who had to hear of it, and he'd never become used to his own feeling of helplessness in those situations.

Hardly had they rested when the waves carried them out again, like a nightmare that repeats itself over and over through the night, and over and over again through the years. Back and forth they went and he feared that her strength could not hold. He had no confidence, not in himself, nor in her. He felt like a helpless child, and Diane seemed helpless too, their long struggle getting them nowhere, only repeating itself--contraction, release, contraction again.

You understand, my boy? I can't help you. And you can't help me. Nobody can help anybody.' 'I don't believe that.' 'The trouble with this world,' says LoBianco, 'is it has nothing to do with what people believe.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

But God wants something better than fig leaves for us. God wants us to be aware of our helplessness so we can know that we need Divine help. God's deepest desire for us is to replace our fig leaves with garments of durability and beauty (Genesis 3:21).

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

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.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

Tohru: Call a doctor, or a vet, or anybody! Oh, Mr. Postman, it's terrible! You see, they're animals! Postman: Uh, yes, they certainly are. Here's your mail.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Your situation and prospects only seem hopeless because you have ideas of hope. Knock off that hope and the crippling feelings of helplessness go with it.

The sad thing about true stupidity is that you can do absolutely nothing about it.

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.

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

When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!

Toen ik naast het bed ging zitten zei ze dat ik er goed uitzag en ik voelde me toen een soort ludieke ploert. Want ik was gezond en ik kon niets voor haar doen.

Hij heeft gebeden en gesmeekt. Hij heeft nachtenlang op zijn knieën gelegen. Het heeft niet geholpen. Dat rampzalige stuk ellende daarboven is zo doof als een rotsblok.

Fatalistic Outlook The powerlessness and helplessness of experiencing cumulative trauma is often experienced as a belief that bad times or even death are right around the corner, that one is living on borrowed time, or that feelings of security and success cannot last.

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

To make matters worse, they are often further traumatized by their present circumstances (for example, prisoners are raped, street people are attacked, mental health patients may experience helplessness during forms of treatment perceived as violent, and so on).