18 Helplessness Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Prevail Frustration Bitterness Build Mood Possible Anything Helplessness Hardly

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness. Jillian Michaels

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

You Matter Whatever Response Follows Reaction Learned Quitting Helplessness Belief

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

Life War Hope Hopelessness Rather Issues Loss Than Decide 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. Daryl Hannah

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

Emotional Person Helplessness

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

Crisis Perceptions Remain Troubling Stereotypes Perpetual American Africa Rooted Helplessness

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

Writing About Empowerment Ultimately End Up Helplessness

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

History Bitterness Feeling National Our Often Us Helplessness Filled

When I dabble in watching the news and reading about current events, I tend to get a future negative view, and that's something I've dealt with through music. It's quite possible I'm slightly paranoid. But I'd say making music is an expression of feelings of helplessness and lack of control that I think a lot of people can relate to. Matt Bellamy

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In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely understand. Neil Gaiman

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. Robin Gibb

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No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil. Roger Rosenblatt

There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence. Sam Shepard

Culture Face Think Heritage Our Way Ways Fact Somewhat Vast Part Felt Always Answered Continent Up Escape Get Just Them Many Helpless Helplessness Grown Away Grown-Up Violence Violent

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness. Martha Nussbaum

Anger Our Way Our Lives Extricate Ourselves Seems Feel Lots Gets Often Situations Grip Us Helpless Helplessness Lives

I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it. Terry O'Quinn

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