“Life is fair. Everyone gets more than they deserve.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
“Life's not fair, get over it!”
Variant: Life is not fair get used to used to it
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American business magnate and philanthropist 1955Related quotes
“Life is not fair. Get used to it… Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.”
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
Though widely attributed to Gates on the internet, this list of life suggestions is actually based on one from Charles J. Sykes. More information at Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/language/document/liferule.htm <br class="br">Misattributed
Everett Dean Martin (1880–1941)
Source: Are We Victims of Propaganda, Our Invisible Masters: A Debate with Edward Bernays (1929), p. 142
“One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“It wasn’t fair, but fairness was something you had to go get; it wasn’t delivered like the mail.”
Tim Powers book Last Call
Source: Last Call (1992), Chapter 8 (p. 77)
“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
George Orwell (1903–1950) English author and journalist
"Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool," Polemic (March 1947)
Context: A normal human being does not want the Kingdom of Heaven: he wants life on earth to continue. This is not solely because he is "weak," "sinful" and anxious for a "good time." Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life.
