--- title: "4 Reason Envy Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 4 Reason Envy quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Reason Envy sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/charles-olson-11645_admire_i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poet_343153.jpg" --- > [I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poets-who-for-some-reason-i-both/) [Charles Olson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-olson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/charles-olson-11645_admire_i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poet_343153.jpg) > [What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/what-will-it-matter-to-him-if-he-notices-that-he-is-growing-old-has/) [Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/311/viktor-e-frankl-668_and-love_what-will-it-matter-to-him-if-he-notices_458081.jpg) > [“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/viktor-e-frankl/the-pessimist-resembles-a-man-who-observes-with-fear-and-sadness-that/) [Viktor E. Frankl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/viktor-e-frankl/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd9/viktor-e-frankl-668_fear_the-pessimist-resembles-a-man-who-observ_543827.jpg) > [“I envy cornerstone in empty deserts, because they are themselves, and for the same reason I envy rocks in the hills, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orhan-pamuk-the-black-book/i-envy-cornerstone-in-empty-deserts-because-they-are-themselves-and/) [Orhan Pamuk - The Black book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orhan-pamuk-the-black-book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b42/orhan-pamuk-the-black-book-267_quote_i-envy-cornerstone-in-empty-deserts-beca_2202106.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/reason-envy/#itemlist", "name": "Reason Envy Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Charles Olson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-olson/i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poets-who-for-some-reason-i-both/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/charles-olson-11645_admire_i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poet_343153.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/charles-olson-11645_admire_i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poet_343153.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2c/charles-olson-11645_admire_i-defer-to-all-these-other-american-poet_343153.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.” — Charles Olson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? \"No, thank you,\" he will think. \"Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these things are things that cannot inspire envy.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Viktor E. 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For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him? No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Viktor E. 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