Helplessness Quotes

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).

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

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

As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Kafka: cries of helplessness in twenty powerful volumes.

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.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of war.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.