“But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”
Source: The Princess Bride
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“Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman”
Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
“Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.”
Source: Death Bringer
Tim Wheddon, Chapter 20, p. 265
Variant: ... I learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens. It may not ever go away completely, but after a while it's not overwhelming.
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)
“No fairer law in all the land
Than that death-dealers die by what they've planned.”
Neque enim lex aequior ulla est,
Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.
Book I, lines 655–656 (tr. Len Krisak)
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
“O fairer daughter of a fair mother!”
O matre pulchra filia pulchrior
Book I, ode xvi, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“There's no way to make the pain play fair
It doesn't disappear just because you say it isn't there”
"Eden"
Written by Bareilles and Matt Hales
Lyrics, The Blessed Unrest (2013)