Unfair Quotes

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William Goldman
“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.”
Kristin Cashore, Graceling

John  Green
“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, Looking for Alaska

Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.”
Karl Lagerfeld

Cassandra Clare
“Who ever said the world was fair?”
Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

Thomas Hardy
“You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.”
Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

Melissa de la Cruz
It's not fair. It's not our fault. We have no say in our own lives. We're living a fairy tale someone else wrote.
Melissa de la Cruz, The Isle of the Lost

Mouloud Benzadi
“The saddest thing in life is to see people suffer from hunger and POVERTY in a world of PLENTY.”
Mouloud Benzadi

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rohinton Mistry
“Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus”
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Mouloud Benzadi
“Nature teaches us lessons that no book can teach. It teaches us that there is always inequality in life. Just look at the animals around you: Some are bigger than others, some are stronger than others, some live longer than others, some dominate others, and some survive at the expense of others.
Life is simply unfair.”
Mouloud Benzadi

Sue Lynn Tan
“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

Isuna Hasekura
“If closing my eyes would make unfair things disappear, I would do that”
Isuna Hasekura, Spice & Wolf, Vol. 09: The Town of Strife II

Ali Hazelwood
“Clearly, sports were another thing Adam Carlsen excelled at—unfairly so.”
Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

Robert M. Sapolsky
“some people always get more than their share of equality than others”
Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

Ramona Stoian
“Among doctors, there are also criminals!”
Ramona I.

“Because the Beast doesn't get the Beauty" - Kai Azer, Reckless


Lauren Roberts, Reckless
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Carlos Wallace
“We are often our own worst enemies. We create our own limitations and then complain that life is unfair.”
Carlos Wallace, Life is not Complicated, You Are

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“If you support the oppressed and prevent the oppressor from being unfair, then know that God guided you.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“Do not be with the oppressor, help the oppressed and prevent the oppressor from being unfair.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Mehmet Murat ildan
“A person who treats someone unfairly may start to show a tendency to be unfair to other people, or he may regret what he did and never act unfairly to others! What usually happens is the former!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Jennifer L. Armentrout
“... to say we would repeat history was unfair when that history was unknown to us.”
Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“If all dreams were destined to come true, would life still hold its meaning?”
Kshitiz

“What value is there in a vote you've gained from becoming a dumping ground for the shallow emotions of shallow people?”
Saki Kawashiro, The Ex-Boyfriend's Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee

Chelsea Abdullah
“They were the same. All of them, monsters. Only Mazen had been innocent, and now he would be haunted by imaginary blood on his hands for the rest of his life.”
Chelsea Abdullah, The Ashfire King

Suzanne Collins
“He throws Cinna's gloves at my feet. "I've changed my mind. I don't want anything they made in the Capitol."

And he's gone.

I look down at the gloves. Anything they made in the Capitol? Was that directed at me? Does he think I am now just another product of the Capitol and therefore something untouchable? The unfairness of it all fills me with rage. But it's mixed up with fear over what kind of crazy thing he might do next.”
Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

Nita Prose
“It is the prerogative of the young to rail against injustice, and it is the fate of the old to endure it. When you were a child, you railed against anything you perceived as unfair, wanting so much for the wrongs of this world to be righted. You had no notion that justice comes at a cost, one that is too often paid by those who can least afford it.”
Nita Prose, The Maid's Secret

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