#helpless

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

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

— Tamora Pierce

#death #flick #helplessness #henna #illness

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

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

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#human #small #weak #dreams

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#helplessness #loss #religion #religion

DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it. ↗

— Jane Espenson

#dollhouse #helplessness #loneliness #connection

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. ↗

— William Bartram

#birds #helpless #other #own #rear

The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. ↗

— John Whitehead

#did #helpless #south #understand #victims

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#behaves #being #care #children #culture