Top 212 Helplessness Quotes & Sayings

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

I'm an emotional person, but it is not my helplessness.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.

So the poor instead of bread made do with a picture of the bleeding scourged and nailed-up Christ and prayed to that image of their helplessness

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world. What I find appealing in life abroad was the inevitable sense of helplessness it would inspire. Equally exciting would be the work involved in overcoming that helplessness. There would be a goal involved, and I like having goals.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

The answer to helplessness is not so very complicated.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of helplessness I had not felt in death — the helplessness of being alive, the dark bright pity of being human — feeling as you went, groping in corners and opening your arms to light - all of it part of navigating the unknown.

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.

I sometimes feel tremendous compassion and helplessness.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness.

Sometimes when I am photographing a major news event, I am suddenly overwhelmed by helplessness.

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the fear which comes from the feeling of helplessness.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

I dislike helplessness in other people and in myself, and this is by far my greatest fear of illness.

It is the taste of helplessness when you see your beloved fading away like a dream and you cannot help him.

For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized.

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.

Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.