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Quotes About Helpless

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
~ William Barclay
to hurt the weak and the helpless; but what stuck in my mind was this, he said that cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if
~ Anna Sewell
Helpless, heartbroken and lonely, Katrien sank into the grass at the side of the road and wept—wept until she had no more tears. Darkness had already set in by the time she picked up the overturned basket and headed home. From somewhere in the grass came the gleam of a silver thimble…
~ Anne Frank
You have a light in you that's almost blinding. But in me there's only darkness. Sometimes I think it's like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don't need the darkness.
~ Anne Rice
My hair covers my scarring.' 'But we've agreed that no one notices your scarring once they're around you. You woo them like a big, fat hairy black spider, and no matter how much they struggle they're helpless.
~ Anne Stuart
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man. and the limitless kindness of God. WILLIAM BARCLAY
~ Sheila Walsh
Grief is when you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.
~ Sherman Alexie
So I looked up the word grief in the dictionary. And then I discovered the answer: grief (greef) n. When you feel so helpless and stupid that you think nothing will ever be right again, and your macaroni and cheese tastes like sawdust, and you can't even jerk off because it seems like too much trouble.
~ Sherman Alexie
I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.
~ Nikki Cox
The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life.
~ Martha Ostenso
it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...
~ John Geddes
It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it. Mr. Congreve was right about love being a frailty of the mind.
~ John Jakes
The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones, that there seemed no room for tears.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This time, there had been no evident danger, but nevertheless she was carried helplessly into the air and away.
~ Elizabeth Bear
He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that's a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
~ Elizabeth Smart
Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.
~ Arthur Golden
Wilson's ringing words on receiving the news—"a little band of wilful men representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible"—
~ Arthur Herman
It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
~ B.F. Skinner
He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.
~ B.J. Daniels
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. —Matthew 9:36
~ Gary Chapman
It's easy to feel helpless - like you can't fight the tide. But remember: small actions can have a huge impact, and one person like you can inspire others to action.
~ Celeste Ng