Who Said Life Is Not Fair Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I come to the point of using steel, and simply cannot. It's like the marriage proposal of a perfectly eligible man who just isn't loveable. It is wood I love.

Anne Truitt

#3. 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

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

Suzanne Harper

#5. 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

#6. Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

Patti Smith

#7. It wasn't fair, he thought peevishly. "Who said life was fair?" his father had said to him a hundred times. He had said the same himself to his own daughter. ("It's not fair, Daddy.") Parents were miserable buggers. It SHOULD be fair. It should be paradise.

Kate Atkinson

#8. No one ever said life was fair

Nicholas Sparks

#9. it was "the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in his hair, he's still a man. One of them, Red Legs, looked at me and said 'do you think this is fair? Would you sign such a paper?' and I could not meet his eyes. It made me sick.

Michael Crichton

#10. But of bliss and glad life there is little to be said, before it ends; as works fair and wonderful, while they still endure for eyes to see, are ever their own record, and only when they are in peril or broken for ever do they pass into song.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. I have no argument with those who see in organized religion a template or an imperative to live life according to a prescribed set of beliefs. Just give others the room, within the laws of civil society, to believe or not believe whatever they like.

Michael J. Fox

#12. Bitter experience has taught me that you don't engage with intellectually superior wankers who make long speeches about moral relativism.

Alexis Hall

#13. What's freedom for? To know eternity.

Theodore Roethke

#14. No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Carol Burnett

#15. One's appreciation of nature is never more acuet than when a bit of nature is injected into one's flesh.

Howard Evans

#16. Self-criticism and negative thoughts about yourself will attract people who reflect this back to you, showing critical behavior and can abuse you physically.

Hina Hashmi

#17. Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ... ' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?'
'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.

Anne Rice

#18. Fair?" said the Sea Queen. She moved forward. Om felt her all around him.
"There's no such thing," she said. "Life's like a beach. And then you die.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

Jane Hirshfield

#20. Who said life was fair? Indeed. Who?

Anonymous

#21. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

George Orwell

#22. Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.

Derek Landy

#23. The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.

Margaret Thatcher

#24. Nobody ever said life was fair.

Lauren Oliver

#25. Maybe that was why she was helping Madeleine. She was a manipulative bitch, but Dess couldn't imagine living in any other reality than the one those manipulations had created. In a way, Dess owed the old mindcaster something.
Like her life, such as it was.

Scott Westerfeld

#26. All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Richard Le Gallienne

#27. And who ever said the world was fair, little lady? Maybe death is fair, but certainly not life. We must accept the unfairness as proof of the sublime flux of existence, the capricious music of the universe- and go on about our tasks

Tom Robbins

#28. Jill had three basic statements about life,
1. It is your life, usually with some added social commentary.
2. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
3. No one ever said that life was fair.

Nicholas Sparks

#29. That's not fair!" Charlotte said.
"I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

Michaela MacColl