Sometimes Life's Unfair Quotes

#1. It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

Hoodie Allen

#2. If life is really as purposeless, unfair, and uncontrollable ... ,then life is simply too terrifying to be managed. So we search for a redemptive narrative ... That search is a survival mechanism.

Amanda Ripley

#3. Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Rohinton Mistry

#4. Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

Barbara Holland

#5. Life was beautiful, everyone knew that, but it was also bitter and bleak and unfair as hell and where did that leave a person? On the outs with the rest of the world. Someone who sat alone in the cafeteria, reading, escaping from his hometown simply by turning the page.

Alice Hoffman

#6. One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

Peter Mayle

#7. What kind of life have you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and Death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

Steve Forbes

#9. What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?

Sandra Chami Kassis

#10. Sometimes life seems very unfair.

Helen Humphreys

#11. I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality ... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Jessie J.

#12. Cassandra sat on the floor with Chris and Kat, playing Life. They had tried to play Trivial Pursuit earlier only to learn that a Dark-Hunter and an immortal handmaiden to a goddess had a decidedly unfair advantage over Cassandra and Chris. In Life, the only thing that mattered was luck.' (Cassandra)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone

Sue Grafton

#14. Everyone is tested. One might think it is unfair to be singled out and subjected to a particular temptation, but this is the purpose of mortal life - to be tested. And the answer is the same for everyone: we must, and we can, resist temptations of any kind.

Boyd K. Packer

#15. The thought crossed his mind that he ought to have married her and not gone rambling. If he had, he wouldn't be in such a fix. But he felt little fear; just an overpowering fatigue. Life had slipped out of line. It was unfair, it was too bad, but he couldn't find the energy to fight it any longer.

Larry McMurtry

#16. Sometimes, you don't get what you want the most ... At other times, you're just lucky.

Sanhita Baruah

#17. Every time you lose, you think that life's unfair. You think of the bad breaks. But when you're winning and playing well, you still get those bad breaks, only you overcome them. It just depends on how strong your mind is.

Greg Norman

#18. It's about life, and how cruel it can sometimes be.
How unfair life is.
All of us have a hand in it.
We do what we have to do, take what we have to take, and sometimes we hurt people we swear we won't hurt, but we do, because life makes us.

J.M. Darhower

#19. Liv grabbed the cookie nearest her and broke it open.
"It's up to you to make your happy ending."
Liv stared at it a moment, rereading the words. Did it mean life? Because if it did, then Liv disagreed. Sometimes life was downright unfair. Bad things happened to good people.

Danika Stone

#20. You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

J. Michael Straczynski

#21. Sometimes life seemed particularly unfair, unduly harsh, and beyond bearing.

Amy Harmon

#22. Life cannot be so unfair. It can't just be over.

Kelly St. Clare

#23. Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Peter Ustinov

#24. Sometimes, I think we're all idiots, rushing headlong into oblivion, shouting about how unfair it is while refusing to steer anywhere else.

Garon Whited

#25. Sometimes things happen and sometimes they're terrible and unfair. But they don't erase the awesome stuff. They don't erase the stuff we love. Life's not some scientific balance" -Charlie

Jennifer Maschari

#26. Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

Hrithik Roshan

#27. We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Madeleine L'Engle

#28. It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime ...

Khaled Hosseini

#29. Life becomes so unfair when you don't get what others do. But don't worry, God has decided something better for you.

Vj Nadar

#30. You may have gotten off to a rough start in life. You may have had more than your share of unfair things happen, but it's not how you start that counts. It's how you finish." ****

Don Pasco

#31. Life is unfair and there are winners and losers, regardless of how much overprotective parents attempt to shield their offspring from reality.

Jen Lancaster

#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. Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game.

Rod Kanehl

#34. Tell me what's wrong with society
When everywhere I look I see
Rich guys driving big SUV's
While kids are starving in the streets
No one cares
No one likes to share
I guess life's unfair

Simple Plan

#35. In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

Haruki Murakami

#36. There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

John Scalzi

#37. I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

Laura Bush

#38. The happiest people don't bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

Andrew Matthews

#39. It is your own bad strategies, not the unfair opponent, that are to blame for your failures. You are responsible for the good and bad in your life.

Robert Greene

#40. So I came to the realization: Nothing in life is unfair. It's just life.

Rob Lowe

#41. Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#42. After a life of being entombed, essentially a slave to an unfair beginning,
I am free. I'm a liberated whore of the world with little to no inhibitions."
(Annie from upcoming book 3)

Robert Kimbrell

#43. It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.

Rob Thomas

#44. Why was life so unfair that the one guy she felt uncontrollable chemistry with
even when they weren't even touching
was the only guy she had to keep her hands off?

Ophelia London

#45. Life is unfair, princess. Bad things happen to good people. Lady Luck is a motherfucking bitch. But we keep our chins up. We don't give up. We don't surrender. And we come back swinging.

Elle Aycart

#46. In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Thomas Sowell

#47. He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn't see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life's tragedies when their very unfair nature meant they had none.

Skye Warren

#48. I asked her who would teach me about life being unfair. She said time.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#49. Life is crappy and unfair some times. But deciding what yo do with that crap is all up to you

Unknown

#50. It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.

Miriam Makeba