D. A. Carson Quotes

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.

When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

I think life is a big game we play.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.

Life ain't fair, period.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never.

Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

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

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.

It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

The sooner you learn that life is not fair, the better off you'll be.

Nobody ever said life was fair.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.