#helpless

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control. ↗

— Virginia C. Andrews

#being #children #control #deep-seated #established

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#birth #born #come #education #estate

Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. ↗

— Herodotus

#men

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#bitter #else #fast #feeling #heart

If she had learnt any lesson today it was that men were stupid, helpless creatures made needlessly cruel by their terror of showing their feelings. ↗

— Jayne Bauling

#feelings #helpless #lesson #men #stupid

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. ↗

— James Baldwin

#helpless #man #rare #very #who

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ↗

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

#comfort #comforter #does #feel #great

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#colonial #domestically #enough #helpless #history

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ↗

— Charles Reade

#children #defend #helpless #like #themselves