Ted Dekker Quotes

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

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

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

He does not deserve this. He has done many things, not all good, but he does not deserve this. And he never did get his priest.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

I operate under the assumption that people don't notice the good in me. That's just how things always seem to play out. I get blamed, while con-artist kids like Venus, and Camille, and Gemma get believed. But the rescue lady noticed. In the background, just observing, she noticed.

We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.

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!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

He's earned a lifetime of peace and happiness, but some people never get what they deserve. That's why there are saints in gutters and sadists in palaces.

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

I don't mind people thinking I'm stupid, but I don't want to give them any proof.

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. You start believing that you're poor because you're stupid and ugly. And then you start believing that you're stupid and ugly because you're Indian. And because you're Indian you start believing you're destined to be poor. It's an ugly circle and there's nothing you can do about it.

All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

I’m not a bad person. I haven’t killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don’t kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.