Top 85 Quotes About Life Isn't Fair
#1. Parents teach their children to share, to play fair, to be honest. But ... surprise! Life isn't fair. And it takes a while to transition from the childhood lies to the adult reality. I
Maria V. Snyder
#2. And after all, it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot and had two ridiculous children. Life isn't fair and never has been.
Eva Ibbotson
#3. Maybe the lesson is: Know when to brag and when to keep your mouth shut. Or: Sometimes life isn't fair, even if you are as gifted as Athena. Or maybe: Don't give away free tapestries.
Rick Riordan
#4. Life isn't fair. Why should death be any different?
Gina Damico
#5. Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.
Harvey MacKay
#6. When someone complains that life isn't fair,
the universe smiles and asks, "Is he a liar?
Debasish Mridha
#7. It's not fair." "Life isn't fair," Jaypaw
Erin Hunter
#8. When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
David Hasselhoff
#9. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.
John-Talmage Mathis
#11. The next time you say 'Life isn't fair' remember that 40% of the world lives on less than $2/day and does not eat every day. How does your 'not fair' compare to theirs? - Tom Cunningham
Tom Cunningham
#12. I wonder if what I did made her hurt as much as she hurt me. Only fair, to trade hurt. But life isn't fair.
Ellen Hopkins
#13. Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.
Byron Katie
#15. I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.
Maria Shriver
#16. Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.
Derek Landy
#17. Fate is a funny character. She puts obstacles in your path to see what character ye have. Life isn't fair,life is a test.
Melissa Francis
#19. Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.
Sarah Dessen
#20. I am a young, white, educated male. I got really, really lucky. And life isn't fair.
Evan Spiegel
#21. Everyone knows that life isn't fair. Saying it's not fair suggests that you think life is supposed to be fair, which makes you look immature and naive.
Travis Bradberry
#22. Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt.
Marta Acosta
#23. Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too.
Gretchen Rubin
#25. Caring is our curse. If we don't care, we can't get hurt. But if we didn't care, the world would be a dark place to live. We have to deal with it and realize life isn't fair. People are taken out of our lives, and others live who don't deserve to continue.
Mandi Lynn
#26. It's probably my job to tell you life isn't fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I'll tell you that hope is precious, and you're right not to give up.
C.J. Redwine
#28. I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.
Taya Kyle
#29. That life isn't fair? Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief ... lessens.
Nicholas Sparks
#30. SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.
RuPaul
#31. Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.
Maya Banks
#32. Life isn't fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don't need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.
Robert Kiyosaki
#33. But now you're unhappy," he pointed out.
"And?" I challenged.
"That doesn't seem fair." He shrugged, but his eyes were still intense.
I laughed without humour. "Hasn't anyone told you? Life isn't fair."
"I believe I have heard that somewhere before," he agreed dryly.
Stephenie Meyer
#34. And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
William Goldman
#35. That's not fair.
Life isn't fair, tweedle-dumb. Get over it.
Nora Sakavic
#36. Somewhere slightly before or after the close of our second decade, we reach a momentous milestone
childhood's end. We have left asafe place and can't go home again. We have moved into a world where life isn't fair, where life is rarely what it should be.
Judith Viorst
#37. Life isn't fair. Now be a good girl and come for your big bad vampire.
Tina Folsom
#38. Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.
Tyron Woodley
#39. Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.
Suzanne Harper
#40. Life isn't fair, he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
Lemony Snicket
#41. Life isn't fair," comes the voice of Nana. She has told me that a thousand times. "What matters is how you handle it." I'm going to handle it by winning.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#42. Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.
Jennifer Brown
#43. When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?
Aubrey O'Day
#44. Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga
Eva Pohler
#45. If life was fair, we'd get treated the way the we treat others and if life was fair, we'd get paid exactly what we are worth. And in the end, we'd all get exactly what we deserve. So, son, maybe it's better if life isn't fair. Sometimes I'm thankful that life isn't fair.
Mike Williams
#46. When you take responsibility for your actions, accept that life isn't fair, get rid of excuses, become a doer, and develop an abundance mentality, you will break down many of the barriers keeping you from true success. You will be well on the way to maximizing the potential that God has given you.
Tommy Newberry
#47. Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.
Sarah Dunn
#48. Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
Mark Billingham
#50. I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.
Criss Jami
#51. Life isn't fair, and luck? That is something you create.
Ellen Hopkins
#52. Life isn't fair, but living? Living is heaven. Living is a gift. Every gift is different - every path is different - for some reason this is ours, and the sooner we accept it, the sooner we can stop crying and start living.
Rachel Van Dyken
#54. Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
#55. I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
Dana Carvey
#56. You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn't it? Sorry.
Terry Pratchett
#57. I don't think it's fair to 12-, 13- and 14-year-olds to say 'Show us you're a winner right now!' Winning isn't everything. I'll never buy that thing that if a boy loses a football game, he's a loser in life.
Joe Paterno
#58. None of this is fair. It isn't fair that part of your life was ripped from you. It's not fair that you were ripped away from me. I'm so angry Simon.
Cassandra Clare
#59. To think about fairness, think of economic life as a game - a serious game. All ideas about fairness can be divided into two broad groups. They are:
- It isn't fair if the result isn't fair.
- It isn't fair if the rules aren't fair.
Robert S. Pindyck
#60. There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.
Alexander Gordon Smith
#61. I know you don't want to scare her, but you can't pretend that her life isn't going to be hard. It's not fair.
Alexandra Bracken
#62. Life is rough for everyone ... Life isn't always fair. Whatever it is that hits the fan, its never evenly distributed - some always tend to get more of it than others.
Ann Landers
#63. This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.
Hanya Yanagihara
#64. Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
Ann Brashares
#65. Life is messy and the universe has an awful lot of people to keep track of. Sometimes things get screwed up. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
That isn't fair.
Bad things should happen to bad people.
And they will. They will.
Amy Zhang
#66. We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#67. It isn't fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life.
Suzanne Young
#68. This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa)
Life isn't about being fair. It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#69. At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.
Tabitha Suzuma
#71. For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.
Tom Stoppard
#72. Life isn't about being fair," he breathed. "It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#73. It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.
Susan Wiggs
#74. Not all destinies are fair, Colby. Hers isn't, yours isn't. We get the lives we choose, even when we don't know we're making a choice.
C. Robert Cargill
#75. Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone
Russell Brand
#76. Most of life isn't anything. Most of life is just the passing of time, and we're even asleep for a fair chunk of that.
Nathan Filer
#77. I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.
Nadya Suleman
#78. People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.
Lynn Marie Sager
#79. I believe that death should not be feared instead we should endure life and give our best even though life isn't always fair we shall always enjoy life the way it comes and if death is upon us its cause its time for us to go knowing that there is something better for us ...
Miguel Angel Puma
#80. They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.
Rush Limbaugh
#81. Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't ... I don't think it's something anybody knows.
L.J.Smith
#82. Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.
Laura C. Schlessinger
#83. Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet.- Dageus
Karen Marie Moning
#84. I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Dana Reeve
#85. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
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