Quotes about help
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“The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"
"Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Death, Soul, Despair

“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939

Men, Heart

“The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

War, People, Feeling, Imagination

“Enchiladas!" Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Variant: Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
Source: Clockwork Princess

Life, Way, Suffering, Evil

“God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped.
"God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first.”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

God

“They said it was better to know your enemy, but how did it help to know that your enemy’s one weakness was your weakness too”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“And he respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anyone who can spell Tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five - Rabbit, speaking of Christopher Robin.

“Trusting God completely means having faith that He knows what is best for your life. You expect Him to keep His promises, help you with problems, and do the impossible when necessary.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Life, God, Faith, Problem

“Will an hour be enough?”
An hour implied that I needed a lot of help. “I’ll see what I can do,” I said coolly. I was ready in twenty minutes.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

“I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.”

Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America

Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three

Men, Fear

“He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Time

“We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

“Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Way, Chance, Reading

“Sometimes, when you’re sad you don’t know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Sadness, Tear

“She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?”

Jim Butcher book Storm Front

Source: Storm Front

Moms, Question, Study

“I can't help but see myself in them. The Seelie are who I was before my sister died. Pink, pretty, frivolous Mac. The Unseelie are who I've become, carved by loss and despair. Black, grungy, driven Mac.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Sister, Loss, Despair

“and when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Love

“A person can't help their birth.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Source: Vanity Fair

Birth, Personality

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984)
Context: Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Context: For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest external horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Way

“… even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.”

Margaret Peterson Haddix book Just Ella

Source: Just Ella

Life, People, Thinking, Learning

“I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers…”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Singing

“Work is a blessing when it helps us to think about what were doing; but it become a curse when its sole use is to stop us thinking about the meaning of our life.”

Paulo Coelho book Like the Flowing River

Source: Like the Flowing River

Life, Thinking

“Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back." He turned away again, and I heard him mutter, "I needdrinks.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Anger

“In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 14

Love

“She was the kind of person who took care of things by herself. She’d never ask anybody for advice or help. It wasn’t a matter of pride, I think. She just did what seemed natural to her.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Nature, Thinking, Personality

“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty… This is my highest and best use as a human.”

Ben Stein (1944) actor, writer, commentator, lawyer, teacher, humorist

Life

“real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.”

Robert Greene (1959) American author

“We can't help it. Life looks for life.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Life

“There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.”

Stephen King book Misery

Source: Misery

God

“What we don't let out traps us. We think, "No one else feels this way, I must be crazy." So we don't say anything. And we become enveloped by a deep loneliness, not knowing where our feelings come from or what to do with them. "Why do I feel this way? Last week, I was on top of the world and now my feelings don't make sense." Voicing it, getting it out and letting it other people hear it, helps to dissipate it. The fears and self-criticisms begin to leak. And we begin to heal.”

Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer

Quoted by Katherine Martin in Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them, p. 268 (1999)

People, World, Fear, Way

“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”

Nancy Garden book Annie on My Mind

Source: Annie on My Mind

“Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Pain

“If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

God

“Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

World, Way, Time, Envy

“When someone's wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.”

Jeannette Walls book Half Broke Horses

Source: Half Broke Horses

Business

“Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.”

David Lubar (1954) Children's writer and game programmer

Source: Hidden Talents

Way, Search

“(T)he world is broken up into pieces, and… it's up to everyone to help put it all back together. It's about recognizing the spark of life in everyone and everything, and gluing those shards back together.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: 13 Gifts

Life, World

“God help the man who ever really loves you.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Love, God

“I tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out bits and pieces of who I was. But that only works out for so long. Eventually, even the smallest fragments can't help but, make a whole.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.”

Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer

Source: Kartography

“To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Time

“Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah… yes. John Green."
"Jason Grace."
"Whatever," the god said.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

God

“Bear heard Rose in the background saying, 'Why thank you, Mr. Fish.'
'Good redhead. Helpful redhead,' Fish returned.”

Regina Doman (1970) American writer

Fish

“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Variant: It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Life, Beauty, Personality

“These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Life, Problem

“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: Steelheart

“The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Life, Beauty, Way, Business

“A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“God help us to live slowly:
To move simply:
To look softly:
To allow emptiness:
To let the heart create for us.
Amen.”

Michael Leunig (1945) Australian artist

God, Heart

“She was the one who was supposed to have walked with him through different lives, being born and loving and dying and being born again. They'd been born for each other, to help each other grow and blossom and discover and evolve.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 2

Love

“What can I do to help thee?" he asked.
"Believe there is a tomorrow.”

James Clavell book Shōgun

Source: Shōgun

“Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

People

“whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence?”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Heart

“Is willing to accept that she creates her own reality except for some of the parts where she can't help but wonder what the hell she was thinking”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Hell, Thinking, Reality, Parting

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.”

Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer

People, Thinking

“If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

“People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.”

Megan Abbott book Dare Me

Source: Dare Me

People

“Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.”

Harlan Coben book Seconds Away

Source: Seconds Away

“Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.”

Shannon Hale The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

Girl

“One doesn’t become a witch to run around being harmful, or to run around being helpful either, a district visitor on a broomstick. It’s to escape all that - to have a life of one’s own, not an existence doled out to by others.”

Sylvia Townsend Warner book Lolly Willowes

Source: Lolly Willowes

Life

“It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.”

Gail Tsukiyama The Samurai's Garden

Source: The Samurai's Garden

“They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling.
God help us all.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

God

“If you're feeling helpless, help someone. ”
― Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)”

Aung San Suu Kyi book Freedom from Fear

Variant: If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
Source: Freedom from Fear

Fear, Feeling, Freedom

“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

World

“The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Source: The Children of the Stage (1899), Last paragraph.
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV

“Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: La historiadora

Understanding, Waiting

“Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

“I can’t believe this night. I was supposed to be applauded and instead, I’m ruined. I swear to God in heaven if I ever see that man again, I will commit murder. (Tory)
Well, if you need help moving the body, you know where Kim and I live. (Pam)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

God, Night

“I will not have a sea creature destroyed, if I can help it. And I can help it.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Sea

“We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

Health, Way

“God help him." He chortled. "He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it."
-Dr. Whitticomb”

Judith McNaught book Whitney, My Love

Source: Whitney, My Love

Love, God

“I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.”

Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles

Source: The Martian Chronicles

“He hadn't wanted to leave Emma, but at the same time he'd thought it would help. Like an addict getting away from the source of his addiction.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Time

“You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.”

Ted Dekker book Saint

Source: Saint

People, World, Understanding, Reading

“Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

World

“Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.”

Toni Morrison Love

Source: Love

Beauty, Silence

“You’re not alone, and you’re not the one in charge,” Mother said gently. “Ask for help when you need it, and give help when you can. I think that is how we serve God—and each other and ourselves—in times as dark as these.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

God, Thinking, Time

“Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.”

Marvin J. Ashton (1915–1994) Apostle of the LDS Church

Love, Family, Disappointment, Time

“The fact thatis the word we use for almost everything—on terrorism, drugs, even poverty—has certainly helped to desensitize us to its invocation; if we wage wars on everything, how bad can they be?”

Glenn Greenwald (1967) American journalist, lawyer and writer

Source: A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency

War

“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”

Anne Rice book Servant of the Bones

Source: Servant of the Bones

Angels

“There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Source: Light in my Darkness

God, Way

“God help us for we knew the worst too young.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed

Source: The Light That Failed

God

“Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

People, Way

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

William James, "Is Life Worth Living?," The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897).
Misattributed

Life, Inspirational, Depressing, For Men

“Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.
I couldn't help but smile.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

Smile

“Too bad Jason wasn’t a metal automaton. At least then Leo would have some idea of how to help his best friend. But with humans … Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Way, Idea

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

Sarah Dunant book The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

Life, God, People, Time

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Dreams, Universe, Personality

“Most of humanity, he said, have eyes that are so caked shut with the dust of deception they will never see the truth, no matter who tries to help them.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Truth

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn’t need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving on—moving forward.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Death

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