Feeling helpless Quotes

Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

I can't do anything! I can't even have an English muffin!

Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get a grip on this town. It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down. But you must stop being so pessimistic, Hannah, and learn to trust those around you. So I do. One more time.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.

There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.'

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain point, everything switches and you're the one standing behind the lights and nobody's going to help you. And that can be really difficult sometimes.

It may seem that every time someone offers you a hand up, they just let go and you slip further down.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

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.

How quickly a person in pain whom you can't help becomes a reproach. And then, no doubt, a thorn.

All that was left for me was a terrible kind of paralysis, this waiting game, this heartbreak game.

I'm listening to someone give up. Someone I knew—someone I liked. I'm listening... but still, I'm too late.