#helpless

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

— B. H. Liddell Hart

#helplessness #hope #hopelessness #induces #issues

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us. ↗

— James Herriot

#dependent #helpless #i #i wish #like

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. ↗

— James Stockdale

#business #felt #having #helpless #i

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#came #catastrophic #children #father #help

... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again. ↗

— Philip Roth

#old-age #wholeness #age

Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#death #flick #helplessness #henna #illness

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals. ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#fear #helplessness #death

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#god #helplessness #faith

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing. ↗

— Chuck Barris

#helplessness #life #you-and-me-babe #life

So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here ↗

— Debra Cox

#heartbreak #helpless-love #letting-go #love #missing-you