Helpless Quotes - Page 21

• Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

  Giles Andreae

  Depression, Believe, People

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• The bold are helpless without cleverness.

  Euripides

  Risk, Cleverness

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women”

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• Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.

  Anne Grant

  Grief, Journey, Confusion

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• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Thinking, Government

  Frank Herbert (2017). “The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction”, p.107, Tor Science Fiction

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• The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Judging, Judgement

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• God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

  George Washington Carver

  Book, Hands, Would Be

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• 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

  Grief, Grieving, One Day

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.255, Random House

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• A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

  Dallas Willard

  Children, Heart, Grace

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.9, Tyndale House

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• Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.

  Hillary Clinton

  Our World, Self, Work Relationships

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2012). “It Takes a Village”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Maternal love, like an orange tree, buds and blossoms and bears at once. When a woman puts her finger for the first time into the tiny hand of her baby and feels that helpless clutch which tightens her very heartstrings, she is born again with her newborn child.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Mom, Daughter, Baby

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  The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

  Jimmy Carter

  Citizens, Poverty, Treats

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• No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Baby, Witty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. God's love is still working. He comes in and takes the calamity and uses it victoriously, working out His wonderful plan of love.

  Eric Liddell

  Optimistic, Love Is, Work Out

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• You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.

  William Barclay

  Spiritual, Kindness, Men

  William Barclay (1999). “Good Tidings of Great Joy: The Birth of Jesus the Messiah”, p.36, Westminster John Knox Press

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• The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

  Gerry Spence

  Government, People, Together

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.20, Macmillan

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• By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, People, Firsts

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• If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Powerful, America, United States

  Televised speech announcing offensive into Cambodia, 30 Apr. 1970

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• When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.

  Chris Hardwick

  Feelings, Perception, Floating

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin

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• I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

  George Washington

  Would Be, Inspired, Moments

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• It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Expression, People

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Helping, Deep Down

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• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

  Emma Goldman

  Hate, People, Joy

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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• Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, People, Civilized Nations

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.180, Schocken

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