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Quotes About Unfairness

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
~ Thomas A. Edison
I had the idea to become really emotionally detached, and a lot of the time I've treated people that I've cared about a lot really unfairly.
~ George Clarke
You stop pretending life is such fin or makes sense. It's often messy and cruel and dull, and we do the best we can. It's unfair, and jerks seem to win. But you fall in love with a few people.
~ Anne Lamott
what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Women are the ones who must bear children, suffering the travails of the birthing chamber, and indeed, often dying to give life. And yet we have no say about what happens to the child afterward. It would never even have occurred to James Marshal to consult his wife ere he dared Steven to hang their son. No more than Louis cared how he grieved Petra by putting her children's future into the hands of a self-seeking lout like Waleran Beaumont. It is so unfair, Harry, so outrageously unfair.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you.
~ Sherman Alexie
This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa) Life isn't about being fair. It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.
~ Patrick Ness
This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa) Life isn't about being fair. It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.
~ Stephan Jenkins
Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.
~ John F. Kennedy
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
Nobody ever said life was fair.
~ Lauren Oliver
I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She didn't understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.
~ Liane Moriarty
Life's not fair; why should I be?
~ Margaret Atwood
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country… Life is unfair.
~ John F. Kennedy
There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.
~ John F. Kennedy
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
~ John Green
My God, she was right. 'You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.
~ Elizabeth Sims
You never even stole that money and yet they fire you. I could just take Alva Johnson by the neck and make her eat dog shit.
~ Elizabeth Sims
It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali