Quotes About Helplessness

If you can tolerate the humiliation and helplessness and admit that you're an out-of-control fuckup, it frees you from expectations that you can't possibly meet, promises you can't keep, and appearances you can't maintain; it liberates you from the ensuring cycle of endless failure.

Looking back, I see now that I accepted as normal the toxic gridlock and learned helplessness our political system teaches.

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

Do nothing" had long been viewed as an unacceptable position of helplessness by American foreign policy experts. The instinct to do something was driven by the desire to prove you were not limited to nothing. You couldn't do nothing and show strength.

Compassion struggled in Maud; uselessly, like a puppy in a sack.

I have to admit I was annoyed. Not physically annoyed, but inside annoyed. That helpless feeling you have when you know you should not be angry because you have to consider how other people are feeling or accept them for what they are, and that it is not your place to say anything. But annoyed because you have not been considered in the whole picture, you are there and that is that. Apologies begin to mean nothing at that point and frustration takes over.

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

A veces, los padres no pueden proteger a sus hijos incluso aunque les quieran más que a nada en el mundo. A veces incluso cuando lo intentan con todas sus fuerzas, no pueden salvarlos. Puedo

Charat Singh's generous promise had called forth that trait of servility in Bakha which he had inherited from his forefathers, the weakness of the down-trodden, the helplessness of the poor and the indigent, suddenly receiving help, the passive contentment of the bottom dog suddenly illuminated by the prospect of fulfilment of a secret and long-cherished desire.

How can you expect a statue to offer you food, if it cannot even save itself from the rain and cold?

These Bellamy men, when they love, they go all in. And my poor Gregory, he couldn't survive losing his baby girl. It was the helplessness that got to him—not being able to fight her dragons for her, slay them.

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

After my last call I hung up the telephone and cried softly. So many knew, but nobody helped.

Each time my young brother walked near Smokey, the man reached out and smacked the side of Brandon's head with the back of his hand. Mom refused to even look up from her newspaper as Brandon pleaded with her for help.

Pegg, cowering in her bedroom, asked her housekeeper to check on the ailing Varick. Then, willing herself in to a frenzy, she tore at her hair and clothes, weeping, her sobs accelerating in volume.

Thus, we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

When things like this happen there's just nothing to be done about it; even suffering itself is a mere waste of time.

To want to die rather than be dependent and helpless; to try to kill the person you love the most because their future seems mere torment: what does this say about our culture?

The trigger has been squeezed, the deathly mechanism has been enabled, the fatal course of a bullet has been set. No amount of bleating or praying or wailing of cajoling can halt it or stall it or call it back.

Her mother couldn't read. Her mother hadn't noticed the signs of a bad winter. Cian wasn't even there. Hereswith was far away, and Fursey. She had taken a double risk and there was no one to help her.

for there is no greater torment for a man than to desire revenge and be unable to get it.

When you are free of the world, you can do something about it. As long as you are a prisoner of it, you are helpless to change it. On the contrary, whatever you do will aggravate the situation.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

For Lilith, it was a comfortable, mindless activity that gave her something to do when there was nothing she could do about her situation.