Definition of Helpless

Helpless

Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

Beyond help; irremediable.

Bringing no help; unaiding.

Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.

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Helpless Quotations

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson

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

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

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.
Ted Nugent

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
Daniel Boone

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
Jean Kerr

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.
Ramakrishna

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.
John Owen

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.
James Herriot

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. Skinner

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.
Mos Def

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank Herbert

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.
Marlo Thomas

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Kin Hubbard

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee

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.
Jules Renard

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
Dick Dale

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Karen Armstrong

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.
Andrzej Wajda

I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.
Carmen Electra

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
Noam Chomsky

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Helpless Translations

helpless in Dutch is waar niet aan te doen valt, hulpeloos
helpless in German is hilflos, ratlos
helpless in Italian is impacciato, perplesso
helpless in Latin is inops
helpless in Spanish is desvalido

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