Top 661 Helpless Quotes & Sayings

When your will power is gone, you are helpless.

When you feel helpless, help someone.

The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

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

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’” There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. “It’s not realistic.” “What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can't change it since they don't have the source code. They can't study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

A woman in love is helpless.

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Many Americans, we know, are horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.

The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.

I like knowing what's going on in the world - even if most of the time I feel helpless.

Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to.

It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a bandit pushes a black steel knife against the flesh of your throat while his brother comes to join him.

The helpless can't help the helpless.

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.

Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

If you feel helpless, go help someone.

If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

I know how it feels to be helpless and it is the biggest fear one can experience.

Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.

We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.

Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

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.

When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.

I don't have children, so I can focus on my mission to save helpless animals.

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity.

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

I feel like dying when I'm helpless

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….

A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.