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Quotes About Unfairness

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.
~ Remco Evenepoel
It's not your fault. But whose fault is it? Why are we always the ones who suffer? We didn't do anything, we didn't do anything to anyone, but every step we take is a trap.
~ Stefan Zweig
You are going to die like a dog for no good reason
~ Ernest Hemingway
There was something deeply affecting about that. Something unfair that went beyond the general unfairness of death at the hands of another. She wondered how men would live if they knew that in every moment of their lives, their size and nature made them vulnerable to the opposite sex.
~ Michael Connelly
There are those destroyed by unfairness and those who are not.
~ Michael Ondaatje
It isn't fair, Ramona told herself, even though grown-ups were always telling her life was not fair. It wasn't fair that life was not fair.
~ Beverly Cleary
Some Survivors get angry at having to work at recovering from sexual abuse. They feel that it is unfair. They suffered all their life because of what someone else did to them: why do they have to suffer any more pain? This anger of "having" to do something is similar to the anger they felt at "having" to put up with the abuse.
~ Beverly Engel
Why can't the world ever be unfair in my favor?
~ Bill Waterson
My mother was mad, as I suppose I too am now mad. What else can people be who have their entire lives snatched away from them, and for no greater crime than being what they are? The choking, stifling unfairness of it is a permanent sore -- one that can be lived with but never forgotten.
~ Tad Williams
Life is hard. It's cruel sometimes. It's merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another.
~ Julianne MacLean
Life is so unfair.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Who the hell set things up like this?
~ June Jordan
For most of the universe's inhabitants, life is not all gummy wads and tarty tarts; is a struggle against hardship, unfairness, corruption, abuse, and adversity in all its guises, where even to survive - let alone survive with dignity - is heroic. To soldier through the days in the wake of failure is the courageous act of many.
~ Frank Beddor
If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
~ Mary Douglas
They didn't treat him right here. I know if I was him, I wouldn't come back.
~ Joe Jackson
There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I don't want to criticise my country, but there are times I feel Sting and myself have been treated unkindly.
~ Trudie Styler
Navient/Sallie Mae treated student loan borrowers unfairly from start to finish.
~ Lisa Madigan
Life as a Person is Unfair, Life as an Actor is Bullshit
~ Joshua Teya
The variety of shapes, colours and textures under her feet was, she believed, literally infinite. It must be. Each shell, each pebble, each stone had been made what it was by aeons of submarine or subglacial massage. The indiscriminate, eternal devotion of nature to its numberless particles had an emotional importance for Isserley; it put the unfairness of human life into perspective.
~ Michel Faber
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The future is never fair. Just inevitable.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
Yeah, well, the future is never fair. Just inevitable.
~ Brian K. Vaughan