Quotes About Unfairness

It isn't God's job to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job. God's job is to make sick people brave, and in my experience, that's something God does really well. Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God's help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life's unfairness.

Prayer, as I understand it, is not a matter of begging or bargaining. It is the act of inviting God into our lives so that, with God's help, we will be strong enough to resist temptation and resilient enough not to be destroyed by life's unfairness.

through the lives and souls of specific individuals. The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact.

But, of course, we cannot choose. We can only try to cope. That is what one does with sorrow, with tragedy, with any misfortune. We do not try to explain it. We do not try to explain it. We do not justify it by telling ourselves that we somehow deserve it. We do not even accept it. We survive it. We recognize its unfairness and defiantly choose to go on living.

Life has a nasty way of being increasingly unfair.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

I confess that if I were in Violet's place, with only a few minutes to open a locked suitcase, instead of on the deck of my friend Bela's yacht, writing this down, I probably would have given up hope. I would have sunk to the floor of the bedroom and pounded my fists against the carpet wondering why in the world life was so unfair and filled with inconveniences.

I confess that if I were in Violet's place, with only a few minutes to open a locked suitcase, instead of on the deck of my friend Bela's yacht, writing this down, I probably would have given up hope. I would have sunk to the floor of the bedroom and pounded my fists against the carpet wondering why in the world life was so unfair and filled with inconveniences.

Wretchedness. It is atrociously unfair, of course, that the Baudelaires have so many troubles, but that is the way the story goes. So now that I've told you that the first sentence will be "The Baudelaire

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.

It would be unfair to expect people to be as remarkable as oneself.

ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

It is a curious law of Nature that the most undeserving brothers always have the best sisters.

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.

There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.

But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out.