Quotes About Helpless

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

Helpless as a burning city, / how can I ignore that the extremes / of pleasure are fire storms / that leave a vacuum into which / dangerous feelings (tenderness, / affection, l o v e) may rush / like gale force winds.

Never in your life have you been helpless—under somebody's heel. You never lived where your enemies held power over you, power to run your life or wipe it out. You can't understand. That's how come you stand there feeding me empty slogans!" Luciente bowed her head. "You crit me justly, Connie. Forgive me. I'll try to see your situation more clearly and make less loud noises in your ears.

Beauty combined with wantonness frequently ends in the drawn twitch, fixed eye and helpless limbs of life-in-death. It is Nature's revenge on the outraged body,—and do you know, Eternity's revenge on the impure Soul is extremely similar?

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

I could fall And there's nothin' else I can do

Our existence, and its attendant neurosis, is defined by a seemingly irresolvable contradiction: that we are outside of nature, beyond it and above it like minor deities, and yet always helplessly within it, forever defined and circumscribed by its blind and implacable authority.

What do you have when you have an agent buried up to his neck in sand? Not enough sand.

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

sociopathic opponent is utterly stuck in his conviction that winning by dominating is all-important. He is helpless to change his objective. If you are able to change yours, you will have a powerful advantage.

I didn't want to see helpless humans. I'd rather see smart ones rescuing each other.

This is the genius of Don Quixote, a helpless fool who is mad as hell at the world, capturing our collective experience of modern mechanical civilization.

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

Don't we say all helpless folk—the orphan, the stranger, the suppliant, who have nothing to bargain with and can only pray—are sacred to Zeus the Savior? The King must answer for them; he is next the god. For the serfs, the landless hirelings, the captives of the spear; even the slaves.

That's the horror, the most awful thing: to have a child the world wants to destroy and know that you're helpless to help him. Nothing worse than that. Nothing worse.

All people, male or female, were helpless in the specifics of their own bodies.

I'm beginning to think I feel too much. The feelings flood into me like so much water, and I am helpless against the onslaught.

She tried to shriek for help, to cry out against the blinding agony, but her mouth wouldn't open. The scream stalled in her throat and she gagged. Oh my God. She couldn't move her lips. She couldn't say one word.

Terror and shame go hand in hand. There is fear in realizing that we are helpless to persuade others that we are human. In that moment

Despair made you helpless. Despair got in the way of the mission. And it never helped. It was the sin that was not so much unforgivable as totally pointless.

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.