Helpless Quotes

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

“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.”

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

“Feelings of helplessness and passivity are epidemic.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I have no mouth, and I must scream.”

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

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

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

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

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