Sometimes Life Isn't Fair Quotes

#1. 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

#2. SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.

RuPaul

#3. Life isn't fair, but government must be,

Ann Richards

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Life isn't fair, and luck? That is something you create.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. 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

#8. Life isn't fair, but you can be.

Tom Selleck

#9. 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

#10. Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Mark Billingham

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Life isn't fair, but death is."--Hades in The Gatekeeper's Saga

Eva Pohler

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.

Lois Lowry

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

Dana Reeve

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. That's not fair.
Life isn't fair, tweedle-dumb. Get over it.

Nora Sakavic

#30. Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

#31. Life isn't fair. Now be a good girl and come for your big bad vampire.

Tina Folsom

#32. Life isn't always fair, lass, but that doesn't mean it can't still be sweet.- Dageus

Karen Marie Moning

#33. Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

Tyron Woodley

#34. Well, you already knew that life isn't fair, right?" he said. "I guess death isn't either.

Suzanne Harper

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Life isn't fair. A fair's a place where you eat corn dogs and ride the ferris wheel.

Jennifer Brown