Unfairness Of Life Quotes

“I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and independent, but when a man leaves a woman he is a pig and a jerk.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Perhaps you can explain it to me, then,” she said, “how is it fair that my utterly inept cousin is in command of me, for no reason other than that he’s a man and I’m a woman? How is it fair that I master Latin and Greek as well as any man at Oxford, yet I am taught over a baker’s shop? How is it fair that a man can tell me my brain was wired wrong, when his main achievement in life seems to be his birth into a life of privilege? And why do I have to beg a man to please make it his interest that I, too, may vote on the laws that govern my life every day?”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke

“But in the military you don't get trusted positions just because of your ability. You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

The result was that you ended up with a command structure that was top-heavy with guys who looked good in uniform and talked right and did well enough not to embarrass themselves, while the really good ones quietly did all the serious work and bailed out their superiors and got blamed for errors they had advised against until they eventually got out.

That was the military.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Shadow

“Having to be personally responsible for maintaining justice in the world is distressing. It makes it seem like maybe there’s something wrong at the Universal Fairness and Balance Department. Like maybe the higher-ups have lost control and they need help.”
― Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

“If we keep telling that life is unfair but do nothing serious about it, then life will forever continue to remain unfair!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“What so many people don’t understand is that the reason some of us do things that seem impossibly hard to others is because we don’t have a choice.”
― Paula Stokes, Stronger Than Words

“The truth is, life is unfair, and we would do well to come to terms with that fact. Boorish people are blessed with athletic or musical skills that qualify them to earn more money in a year than many of us will earn in our lifetime. Saintly people are struck down by disease before they can use their gifts to help others. The task of religion is not to teach us to bow our heads and accept God’s inscrutable will. It is to help us find the resources to live meaningfully and to go on believing, even in a world where people often don’t get what they deserve.”
― Harold S. Kushner, Nine Essential Things I've Learned About Life

“After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis, impatiens, and petunias. Katherine dug with hard chopping strokes, pulling out wandering jew and oxalis, tossing the uprooted weeds into a black pot beside her.
The garden will be beautiful, he thought. But how do the weeds feel about it? Sacrifices must be made.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“我要百分之百地发挥自己地能力，不达到极限绝不罢休。想拿的就拿，不想拿的就不拿，就这样生存下去。不行的话，到不行的时候再另行考虑。反过来想，不公平的社会同时也是大有用武之地的社会。”

“这话像是有些我行我素的味道。” 我说。

“不过，我并不是仰脸望天静等苹果掉进嘴里，我在尽我的一切努力，在付出比你大十倍的努力。”

“恐怕是的。” 我承认。

“所以，有时我环顾世人就气不打一处来——这些家伙为什么不知道努力呢？不努力何必还牢骚满腹呢？”

我惊讶地看着永泽的脸：“在我的印象中，世上的人也都在辛辛苦苦拼死拼活地忙个没完，莫不是我看错了？”

“那不是努力，只是劳动。”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“The world is unfair. You realize it after a while and spend the rest of your life heaving under the weight of this realization. It’s a hard and inassimilable truth that can never be changed; people have tried to change it over ages and across the globe, failing miserably in the end.”
― Gaurav Singh, The Boiling Stream: When innocence gets killed

“Such is the villainy of the universe’s trickery – Moments commit mistakes and decades endure the misery”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“Sometimes all your principles become meaningless in the wake of the sheer force of your feelings.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“Those who have enough often forget those in need - not because they're unkind - but because it makes them uneasy, evoking guilt that they have so much while others, nothing. Life is inherently unfair.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal

“unfairness leads you to failness.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Enid had learned the hard way that adults were there to enforce ever-changing rules and to punish kids for breaking rules. The number one rule being that all rules were subject to change--and always in favor of the adult.”
― C. Mack Lewis , Black Market Angels

“I was a little girl with big dreams. I wanted to be a star like Madonna, Dolly Parton, or Whitney Houston. I had simpler dreams, too, dreams that seemed even harder to achieve and that felt too ambitious to say out loud: I want my dad to stop drinking. I want my mom to stop yelling. I want everyone to be okay.”
― Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

“Of all the types of men [Annabelle] had learned to manage, the “ignorant yet self-important” type was not exactly the most challenging. Then again, when her very fate lay in the hands of such a man, it added insult to injury. Gilbert would snatch the chance of a lifetime from her here in his cramped little study and go straight back to admiring his freshly pinned butterflies in the display case on the desk between them.”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke

“Annabelle bit back a snort. Small village girls talked about knights and princes. Then again, for a girl like Hattie, knights and princes weren’t just creatures from a fairy tale, they came to dine with her parents in St. James. And if one of them married Hattie, he would shelter and indulge her, because at the end of the day, he would have to answer to Julien Greenfield.

Even she might consider marriage under such circumstances—being well treated, with an army of staff at her command to look after the household. As it was, soulmate or not, marriage would mean an endless cycle of scrubbing, mending, and grafting for a whole family, with the added obligation of letting a man use her body for his pleasure.... What would be worse? Sharing a bed with a man she didn’t care for, or with one who had the power to grind her heart into the dirt?”
― Evie Dunmore, Bringing Down the Duke

“Kind people always seem to suffer the most.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The first truth of Life is, People will hurt/harm you for absolutely no fault of yours. The second truth of life is, you'll never be able to take revenge most of the time.”
― Anupam S Shlok

“It’s not clinical. The doctor says it’s situational depression. It’s just that I keep on having new…Situations.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Your unhappiness is the gap between what you feel you deserve and what you get.”
― Anupam S Shlok

“Men jag vet inte om det hjälper att man är en bra person. Det är det värsta med sjukdomar, de stannar inte upp och frågar innan de drabbar en.”
― Callum Bloodworth, Berätta tre saker

“I spent my whole life angry," the ghost said. The darkness from outside the window seemed to seep into him until he was all shadows. "Being poor can make you angry. It can make you do all kinds of things.”
― R.L. Stine, Haunted

“From time to time in the years to come I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck again from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either And when you lose as you will from time to time I hope every now and then your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion. Whether I wish these things or not they’re going to happen and whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes. John Roberts.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Life can be very unfair. She's known that ever since high school, when she was the butt of everyone's joke, but it still surprises her. It shouldn't, but it does.”
― Stephen King

“The flowers Time gave me were already wilted. The only thing I can do is pluck their petals slowly.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“We often perceive life as difficult or unfair. However, it is our interpretation that shapes this perception. Life itself is neither inherently good nor bad; it's neutral, much like a flowing river, streaming in one direction. We have the choice to either accept and navigate with the current or to exert effort against the stream.”
― Anoir Ou-chad

“Men have all the luck. Girl pockets are like the size of a pack of Tic Tacs. Meanwhile, you could hide a dictionary in here.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine

“I didn’t ask for the sword. But I’ve carried it this far.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing