Unable To Help Quotes by J. K. Rowling, John Cheever, Malcolm Lowry, Albert Einstein and many others.

Professor Trelawney: “Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!” Harry Potter: “And you didn’t see that coming?” Professor Trelawney: “No, as I say it was pitch — ” [Glares at Harry angrily]
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
I know what it’s like to see one’s mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.