Is it fair that some people inherit wealth while others do not have enough money to eat? Is it fair that some people have air-conditioned bedrooms where they can sleep peacefully while others do not even have a place to call home? Is it fair that some people have access to every kind of love while others are completely unaware of its existence?
Although bad days do happen to everyone, life is not always unfair. You try to call a taxi but your phone battery dies, you choose the wrong location for a meeting and find yourself on the other side of town, and you spend more money than you intended to on a handbag that is later discovered to be a fake. Life can be unfair in many ways but it is not forever.
Here are sayings that will make you pause and reflect on life.
- “Inequality exists in all aspects of life. Men can lose their lives in battle, sustain injuries, or never leave their home country. Life is unjust. — John F. Kennedy
- “Today’s world operates on a cash-for-trash basis. Anyone can speak up and make any unkind, unfair, or wholly false statement about you, and they will be financially rewarded for it because life is unfair. — Kathie Lee Gifford
- “It’s crucial to feel your anger without judging it or trying to make sense of it. Anger can manifest in a variety of ways, including in the healthcare system, in life, and at your loved one for moving away. The world is unfair. Unfairness is death. A natural response to the unfairness of loss is anger. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- “In general, life is unfair in how things turn out. It is a game played without an umpire!” — Ursula Bloom
- “Life is unfair, but keep in mind that sometimes unfairness works in your favour.” — Peter Ustinov
- “There’s a difference between life being unfair because people are actively making it that way and life being unfair because the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level.” — John Scalzi
- “Life is unfair. And life’s injustice isn’t fair. — Edward Abbey
- “I, therefore, came to the conclusion that life is not unfair. Life is what it is. — Rob Lowe
- “Life is unfair sometimes, but you have to accept it and move on without using it as an excuse.” — Robert Kraft
- “Being fair is unfair because life is unfair.” — Farley Maglaya
- “It is the fairness of life that makes it seem unfair.” — Gugu Mona
- “Who says life is fair, where is that written?” — William Goldman
- “The problem isn’t that life is unfair — it’s our broken idea of fairness. Meaning, our idea of fairness is self-centred.” — Tony Warrick
- “The only thing that makes life unfair is the delusion that it should be fair.” — Dr. Steve Maraboli
- “If life is unfair with everyone, doesn’t that make life fair?” — Thabang Gideon Magaola
- “The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.” — Andrew Matthews
- “Life is not fair. Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be is a fool or worse.” — David Brin
- “Get used to the unfairness of life.” — Charlie J. Sykes
- “In fact, life is unfair. Sometimes, as I look up at the night sky, I wonder why you are my entire universe and I am not even a tiny star in your eyes. — Unknown
- “Life’s not fair; why should I be?” — Margaret Atwood
- 21.”Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, that is a fact,” said number . — Stephen Jenkins
- “Life can be unfair at times, but that isn’t an excuse to give up on it.” — Anonymous
- “Life isn’t fair. Just as fair as death, really. That’s all.” — William Goldman
- “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, and unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures, and delights. Life happened.” — Thrity Umrigar
- “Life is unfair. You put someone first who put you second. You study your ass off for a final only to get a C. You give 110% to someone in a relationship who only gives 40%. You’re there for a best friend at 3:00 am and the next day they don’t pick up their phone. It seems like you’re giving everyone everything and they’re just walking away with it.” — Anonymous
- “The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.” — Daniel Keys Moran
- “Life, I’ve learned is never fair. If people teach anything in school that should be it.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.” — Chris Cleave
- “I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don’t choose where you are thrown to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course, plenty of food and clean water.” — Tim Costello
