Helplessness quotes

“- Virginia Brush: If there's something in your eye, Amy, I'll help you get it out.
- Amy Lind: There's nothing in my eye, I just plain and simple winked at him that's all.”

Rita Hayworth - Virginia Brush
Olivia Mary de Beauvoir de Havilland - Amy Lind

“I won't kill a helpless human being. Not even sadistic scum... like you.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Ben Richards

“I wouldn't pray just for a old man that's dead, 'cause he's all right. If I were to pray, I'd pray for folks that are alive and don't know which way to turn.”
John Carradine - Jim Casy

“You've got to trust me, Mr. Spade. I'm so alone and afraid. I've got nobody to help me if you won't help me. Be generous, Mr. Spade. You're brave. You're strong. You can spare me some of that courage and strength surely. Help me, Mr. Spade.”

Mary Astor - Brigid O'Shaughnessy

“I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing.”
Tom Hanks - Chuck Noland

“I know what it is to feel lonely and helpless and to have the whole world against me, and those are things that no men or women ought to feel.”
Robert Donat - Hannay

“No earthly power can help those that are marked by the sign of the pentagram.”
Lon Chaney Jr. - Larry Talbot

“Don't try to win this war all by yourself.”
John Wayne - Capt. Jim Gordon

“Jody's in danger and you're not doing anything!”
Christina Ricci - Beth Easton

“You stood there and let me beat a defenseless woman?”

Fredric March - Wally Cook

“Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.”
Madeleine Stowe - Kathryn Railly

“You don't like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don't you? If it doesn't stop, shoot it.”

Humphrey Bogart - Frank McCloud

“You're so brave. Against things that can't fight back.”

Rochelle Hudson - Lorraine Danel

“- James St. James: What did you mean when you said I was hopeless?
- Carl Taylor: I meant exactly... what I said.
- James St. James: I still don't understand.
- Carl Taylor: Well, let's examine the word: hope-less. Less than hopeful. That's what you are.
- James St. James: Am I majorly hopeless or partially hopeless?
- Carl Taylor: I'd say,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Emilio Estevez - James St. James
Charlie Sheen - Carl Taylor

“There's no help. No help for the whole poor suffering world.”
Albert Bassermann - Van Meer

“- Verna: Shouldn't you be doing your job?
- Tom Reagan: Intimidating helpless women is my job.
- Verna: Then go find one, and intimidate her.”
Marcia Gay Harden - Verna
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“- Fool: He doesn't talk much, does he?
- Alice: His tongue's cut out.
- Alice: Mommy caught him trying to call for help one day, and Daddy had to teach him to...
- Fool: Speak no evil, right?”

Brandon Quintin Adams - Fool
A.J. Langer - Alice