George Jean Nathan Quotes

It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

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 can't do nothing just a little.

A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.

Sometimes, what's helpful is to admit that we are discouraged and admit that we are at a loss.

I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.

He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

If family or friends are unwell or ill - it's perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.

I know there are certain things that I just can't win.

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

This wasn't the way I had imagined my adventures, but reality ignored my wishes from the get-go, giving me a body best suited for stacking books in the library, injecting so much fear into my veins that I could only cower in the stairwell when the violence came. Maybe someday my arms and legs would thicken with muscle and the fear would drain away like dirty bathwater. I wish I believed these things would happen, but I didn't.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.