Ian Somerhalder Quotes

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

I understand that people believe that they are impotent and can do very little.

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Childhood can be hell. One reason … is that as a child you have no power.

How little authority I have

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.

When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

As a kid, I felt like I had no voice, felt like I had no options, and that's what drove me to this really dark place.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

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.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?