Helpless Quotes

“The essential element in the feeling of anxiety is the feeling of helplessness.”

“Epistemic learned helplessness is the feeling that you can’t know things.”

“Feelings of helplessness and passivity are epidemic.”

“For the sake of the innocent, the helpless, and the dumb, I am here to plead their cause.”

“There is no reply, in clear terrain, to an ambush.”

“I have no mouth, and I must scream.”

“And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help—for It As impotently moves as you or I.”

“You can't save people from themselves. All you can do is stand by and watch them destroy themselves.”

“I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.”

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

“Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, that know not how to remedy our own.”

“All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to life.”

“The worst is when you know you have to do something, and you can't.”

“For in this sick-room, even the doctors' presence is oppressive, a constant reminder of my own helplessness.”

“We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded which way please them.”